All Outputs (10)

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.

Not to Naught be Brought: Paul Celan and the Necessary Failure of the Ever Coming Word (2017)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2017). Not to Naught be Brought: Paul Celan and the Necessary Failure of the Ever Coming Word. Annual review of critical psychology : action research, 13,

No abstract available.

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.

Žižek, political philosophy and subjectivity (2010)
Journal Article
Hook, D., & Neill, C. (2010). Žižek, political philosophy and subjectivity. Subjectivity, 3(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2009.35

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.

Perspectives on Lacanian Subjectivities (2008)
Journal Article
Neill, C., & Hook, D. (2008). Perspectives on Lacanian Subjectivities. Subjectivity, 24(1), 247-255. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2008.24

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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..

The Locus of Judgement in Lacan's Ethics (2005)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2005). The Locus of Judgement in Lacan's Ethics. Journal for Lacanian studies, 3, 85-100

This article seeks to redress an often elided aspect of Lacan’s treatment of ethics; the importance of judgement to the possibility of ethical action. Where writers like Žižek and Zupančič have presented the act as something akin to an asubjective mi... Read More about The Locus of Judgement in Lacan's Ethics.

An idiotic act: on the non-example Of Antigone. (2005)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2005). An idiotic act: on the non-example Of Antigone. Janus head, 34, 1-28