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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

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://d

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..

Who wants to be in rational love? (2009)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2009). Who wants to be in rational love?. Annual review of critical psychology : action research, 7, 140-150

Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito (2008)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2008). Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito. Subjectivity, 24(1), 325-339. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2008.21

This paper explores a Lacanian approach towards inter-subjectivity and a consideration of how such an approach might impact constructively on social psychology. Drawing largely on the work of Bracha Ettinger, the paper will consider questions of alte... Read More about Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito.

The Lacanian gaze. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2008, February). The Lacanian gaze. Presented at Department of Social Psychology Seminar, LSE, London

The Lacanian subject. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2007, March). The Lacanian subject. Presented at Department of Social Psychology Seminar, LSE, London

‘Wit(h)nessing the other?’ (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2007, January). ‘Wit(h)nessing the other?’. Presented at Research Institute for Health and Social Change Seminar, Manchester Metropolitan University

Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy. (2006)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2006). Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy. Gramma: journal of theory and criticism, 14, 61-70

In the sixth chapter of the Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, Lacan refers to the taoist Choang-tsu's well known parable of the dream butterfly. Choang-tsu poses the question of how, after waking from a dream of being a butterfly, he can t... Read More about Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy..