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Lacan's Seminar XVII (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2021, September). Lacan's Seminar XVII. Presented at Ghent University Intensive Doctoral School, Ghent University

This two day seminar will be dedicated to reading Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, including an overview of the text and focused close readings.

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.

“Medical Harmony: Eryximachus”—Commentary on Session V (2020)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2020). “Medical Harmony: Eryximachus”—Commentary on Session V. In G. Basu Thakur, & J. Dickstein (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII (51-59). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32742-2_4

This commentary presents a close reading of the fifth session of Lacan’s eighth seminar, titled in the 2015 translation, ‘Medical Harmony: Eryximachus’. In this section of the seminar, as the title suggests, Lacan discusses the notion of medical harm... Read More about “Medical Harmony: Eryximachus”—Commentary on Session V.

Eating the Ecrits (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2019, October). Eating the Ecrits. Presented at Ecrits Conference, Pittsburgh, US

Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'The Freudian Thing' to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache' (2019)
Book
Hook, D., Neill, C., & Vanheule, S. (Eds.). (2019). Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'The Freudian Thing' to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache'. London and New York: Routledge

The Écrits was Jacques Lacan’s single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of comment... Read More about Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'The Freudian Thing' to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache'.

Masculinity in crisis: Myth, fantasy and the promise of the raw (2019)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2020). Masculinity in crisis: Myth, fantasy and the promise of the raw. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 25, 4-17. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-019-00135-7

In unravelling the question of sexual difference and the (non-)relation between the sexes, Jacques Lacan alludes to, draws on and restages Freud’s myth of the primal horde. Core to this myth is, of course, the figure of the father. The contemporary s... Read More about Masculinity in crisis: Myth, fantasy and the promise of the raw.

Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture (2019)
Book Chapter
Hook, D., Neill, C., & Vanheule, S. (2019). Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture. In D. Hook, C. Neill, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Écrits: From ‘The Freudian Thing’ to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache' (1-5). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429294310-1

In comparison to Sigmund Freud’s oeuvre that of course exists in the collected form of the Standard Edition, Jacques Lacan’s written work exists in a far more scattered and diffuse state. Prior to the eventual 15 November 1966 publication date of the... Read More about Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture.

Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject' (2018)
Book
Vanheule, S., Hook, D., & Neill, C. (Eds.). (2018). Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429459221

The Écrits was Jacques Lacan’s single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of comment... Read More about Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'.

Introduction to ‘Reading Lacan's Écrits’: La trahison de l'écriture (2018)
Book Chapter
Hook, D., Neill, C., & Vanheule, S. (2018). Introduction to ‘Reading Lacan's Écrits’: La trahison de l'écriture. In S. Vanheule, D. Hook, & C. Neill (Eds.), Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’ (1-5). Routledge

The Only Good Father (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2018, July). The Only Good Father. Paper presented at The Fragile Phallus, The Freud Museum, London

The Ethics of Destitution (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2018, April). The Ethics of Destitution. Presented at Grand Rounds, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University

Do electric sheep dream of androids? On the place of fantasy in the consideration of the nonhuman (2018)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2018). Do electric sheep dream of androids? On the place of fantasy in the consideration of the nonhuman. In G. Basu Thakur, & J. M. Dickstein (Eds.), Lacan and the Nonhuman (213-225). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63817-1_11

From Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. through to Rosi Braidotti’s non-human actors, in fiction and theory alike, the notion of the non-human often runs very close to the human against which it would be defined. As the non in nonhuman pulls away from the human to... Read More about Do electric sheep dream of androids? On the place of fantasy in the consideration of the nonhuman.

Ethical dilemma: codes of practice, why they don't work and why we need them. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2017, March). Ethical dilemma: codes of practice, why they don't work and why we need them. Presented at Can I Really Do This?, London

The very term ‘ethics’ falters unhelpfully in its usage. On a common sense level, we all know what we mean when we hear or use the term but in practice it signifies both a mode of responding and, increasingly, a set of guidelines or strictures which... Read More about Ethical dilemma: codes of practice, why they don't work and why we need them..

How evil people choose their victims: The Dark Triad and perceptions of personality traits and vulnerability (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li Chung, K., Charles, K., Neill, C., & Willis, A. (2016, July). How evil people choose their victims: The Dark Triad and perceptions of personality traits and vulnerability. Poster presented at 18th European Conference on Personality

The Dark Triad (DT) – Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy – is associated with grandiosity, insensitivity, and exploitation. Some people are found to be more sensitive to verbal and non-verbal language, making them skilled at judging others... Read More about How evil people choose their victims: The Dark Triad and perceptions of personality traits and vulnerability.