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Aggressiveness in psychoanalysis (2024)
Book Chapter
Neill, C., & Eyers, T. (2024). Aggressiveness in psychoanalysis. In Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Overture to this Collection’ to ‘Presentation on Psychical Causality’. Routledge

This chapter provides a close reading of Lacan's essay ‘Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis’. In this écrit, Lacan situates aggression as a fundamental force in the emergence of subjectivity and in the formation of the ego in particular. In the process,... Read More about Aggressiveness in psychoanalysis.

The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience (2024)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2024). The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. In C. Neill, D. Hook, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From ‘Overture to this Collection’ to ‘Presentation on Psychical Causality’. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780415707954

The short essay ‘The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience’ is without doubt Lacan's best-known piece of writing. Over its dense seven pages, Lacan presents a repost to both Sartre's existentialism and d... Read More about The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

Overture to this Collection (2024)
Book Chapter
Hook, D., Neill, C., & Vanheule, S. (2024). Overture to this Collection. In C. Neill, D. Hook, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368649-2

By citing Buffon's famous aphorism “The style is the man himself” as the opening lines of his Écrits, Lacan invites us to consider a number of salient themes concerning the following: the role of reading and interpretation in psychoanalysis; paradoxe... Read More about Overture to this Collection.

Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis (2024)
Book Chapter
Neill, C., & Eyers, T. (2024). Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis. In C. Neill, D. Hook, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368649-7

This chapter provides a close reading of Lacan's essay ‘Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis’. In this écrit, Lacan situates aggression as a fundamental force in the emergence of subjectivity and in the formation of the ego in particular. In the process,... Read More about Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis.

The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience (2024)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2024). The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience. In C. Neill, D. Hook, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368649-6

The short essay ‘The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience’ is without doubt Lacan's best-known piece of writing. Over its dense seven pages, Lacan presents a repost to both Sartre's existentialism and d... Read More about The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience.

Introduction: La trahison de l'écriture (2024)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2024). Introduction: La trahison de l'écriture. In C. Neill, D. Hook, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368649-1

What kind of book is Lacan's Écrits? This is a more pressing question than it may appear. Knowing what type of book the Écrits is would provide us with a strategy for how one might go about reading – if “reading” is even the most appropriate imperati... Read More about Introduction: La trahison de l'écriture.

While Not Having the Last Word … (2023)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2024). While Not Having the Last Word …. In C. Owens (Ed.), Studying Lacan’s Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (166-179). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003450795-8

This chapter traces the final session of Lacan’s Seminar VII where he draws many of the key strands of the seminar together as close as he can to a conclusion. The insights of the seminar are, however, such that the very thinking through of ethics th... Read More about While Not Having the Last Word ….

Towards an Understanding of the Olfactory Drive (2021)
Book Chapter
Neill, C., & Di Gianfrancesco, C. (2021). Towards an Understanding of the Olfactory Drive. In B. R. McLaughlin, & E. Daffron (Eds.), The Body in Theory: Essays After Lacan and Foucault (25-33). Jefferson, NC: McFarland

From Voight-Kampff to Baseline Test: By Way of an Introduction (2020)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2021). From Voight-Kampff to Baseline Test: By Way of an Introduction. In C. Neill (Ed.), Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049 (1-11). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56754-5_1

Focusing the differences between the famous Voight-Kampff test of the original Blade Runner film and the apparently more straightforward Baseline test of Blade Runner 2049, this essay seeks to draw out some key conceptual shifts in emphasis between t... Read More about From Voight-Kampff to Baseline Test: By Way of an Introduction.