Outputs (72)

Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis (2013)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2013). Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis. Theory and Psychology, 23(3), 334-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354312473520

This paper presents an entry-level approach to Lacanian Discourse Analysis. Along the way it considers crucial issues for textual analysis, arguing that Lacan’s insights provide an important collection of tools and concepts in dealing with textual re... Read More about Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis.

‘On imaginary identification and the possibility of meaning’ (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2012, December). ‘On imaginary identification and the possibility of meaning’. Presented at Psychosocial Studies Seminar, Birkbeck College, London

'‘The logic of fantasy’: comments on Lacan’s seminar XIV’. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2012, May). '‘The logic of fantasy’: comments on Lacan’s seminar XIV’. Presented at Cardiff University Inter-disciplinary Psychosocial Seminar Series, Symposium on the Unconscious., Cardiff University

‘Sarah Lucas and the photographic gaze’. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2012, February). ‘Sarah Lucas and the photographic gaze’. Presented at Stills Gallery, Theory of the Image, Stills Gallery

Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity. (2011)
Book
Neill, C. (2010). Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity. Palgrave Macmillan

However we conceive of ethics, whether by appeal to an exterior or traditional notion of right and wrong, or by appeal to some form of individual virtue or responsibility, it implies some form of agency. Where there is an ethical act, there must be s... Read More about Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity..

‘Imagining meaning: a Lacanian introduction to discourse analysis’. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2011, November). ‘Imagining meaning: a Lacanian introduction to discourse analysis’. Presented at Open University Social Sciences Seminar, Open University, Milton Keynes

Antigone: Raw Female (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2011, August). Antigone: Raw Female. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy, York St John University

What would have been: nostalgia, fantasy and the past of the future. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2011, July). What would have been: nostalgia, fantasy and the past of the future. Paper presented at 3rd Annual Conference of the Apartheid Archive Project, Narratives, Nostalgia and Nationhood, Witswatersrand University, Johannesburg

Echo’s response: on identification and the necessary limitations of discursive research. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2011, June). Echo’s response: on identification and the necessary limitations of discursive research. Paper presented at The International Society for Theoretical Psychology Conference, Doing Psychology Under New Conditions

One amongst many: the ethical significance of Antigone and the films of Lars von Trier. (2010)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2010). One amongst many: the ethical significance of Antigone and the films of Lars von Trier. In S. E. Wilmer, & A. Zukauskaite (Eds.), Interrogating Antigone in postmodern philosophy and criticism (135-146). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199559213.003.0008

Like Sophocles' Antigone, the work of Lars von Trier is often called upon to illustrate a point regarding ethics. Among those who so use these works are many Lacanians, such as Žižek, and, indeed, Lacan himself draws on Antigone in The Ethics of Psyc... Read More about One amongst many: the ethical significance of Antigone and the films of Lars von Trier..