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Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture' to 'Variations on the Standard Treatment' (2023)
Book
Neill, C., Vanheule, S., & Hook, D. (Eds.). (2023). Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture' to 'Variations on the Standard Treatment'. London: Routledge

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 ….

Jacques Lacan: The Basics (2023)
Book
Neill, C. (2023). Jacques Lacan: The Basics. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622002

Jacques Lacan: The Basics provides a clear and succinct introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. Lacan’s ideas are applied in the study of the humanities, politics, and psychology as well as cont... Read More about Jacques Lacan: The Basics.

The Ethics of Inisherin: Seminar on Ethics of Psychoanalysis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2023, May). The Ethics of Inisherin: Seminar on Ethics of Psychoanalysis. Presented at Irish Council for Psychotherapy seminar, Dublin

In this talk, Calum Neill will explore Lacan’s four propositions on ethics from his Seminar on the Ethics of Psychoanalysis and seek to illustrate his arguments through Martin McDonagh’s 2022 film The Banshees of Inisherin. This will allow us to exam... Read More about The Ethics of Inisherin: Seminar on Ethics of Psychoanalysis.

Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C., & Fimiani, B. (2023, February). Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment. Presented at Online event at The Freud Museum, London [online]

The Freud Museum welcomes psychoanalyst Bret Fimiani, who will be in discussion with the Palgrave Lacan series editor, Calum Neill, for his latest publication Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment (2021, Palgrave). The book offers a ne... Read More about Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment.

‘Raw Sex?’: An Exploration of the Political Potential of Lacan’s Non-conclusive Binary (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2023, January). ‘Raw Sex?’: An Exploration of the Political Potential of Lacan’s Non-conclusive Binary. Presented at International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Berlin

The Lecture will explore Lacan’s reformulation of two of Freud’s key myths- that of Oedipus and that of the primal horde- and will show how Lacan fruitfully offers us a radically new conception of gender. This new conception not only contests the nat... Read More about ‘Raw Sex?’: An Exploration of the Political Potential of Lacan’s Non-conclusive Binary.

Stuck in a Revolving Door (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2023, January). Stuck in a Revolving Door. Presented at Invited Workshop, Ruhr Universitat, Bochum

Between his 16th and 19th seminars, Lacan introduced and played with the notion of what has come to be known as the four discourses. This quasi-algebraic schema can be understood as a mechanism to describe the structures and functioning of social di... Read More about Stuck in a Revolving Door.