The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience (2024)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2024). The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. In C. Neill, D. Hook, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From ‘Overture to this Collection’ to ‘Presentation on Psychical Causality’. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780415707954

The short essay ‘The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience’ is without doubt Lacan's best-known piece of writing. Over its dense seven pages, Lacan presents a repost to both Sartre's existentialism and d... Read More about The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

Aggressiveness in psychoanalysis (2024)
Book Chapter
Neill, C., & Eyers, T. (2024). Aggressiveness in psychoanalysis. In Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Overture to this Collection’ to ‘Presentation on Psychical Causality’. Routledge

This chapter provides a close reading of Lacan's essay ‘Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis’. In this écrit, Lacan situates aggression as a fundamental force in the emergence of subjectivity and in the formation of the ego in particular. In the process,... Read More about Aggressiveness in psychoanalysis.

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'.

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.

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,

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Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice (2016)
Book
Neill, C. (2016). Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice. Routledge

This highly original book explores the idea and potential of psychology in the context of ethical theory, and the idea of ethics in the context of psychology. In so doing, it not only interrogates how we come to understand ethics and notions of right... Read More about Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice.

Lacan’s master-signifier revisited, or Mandela and repression. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2016, April). Lacan’s master-signifier revisited, or Mandela and repression. Paper presented at LACK Conference 2106

‘Not to Naught: Paul Celan and the necessary failure of the ever coming word’. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2015, October). ‘Not to Naught: Paul Celan and the necessary failure of the ever coming word’. Presented at Memory and Counter-Memory, Psychoanalysis and Politics Symposium on the 70th Anniversary of the Holocaust

Through a glass darkly: the fantasmatic figure of the immigrant. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2015, March). Through a glass darkly: the fantasmatic figure of the immigrant. Paper presented at Psychoanalysis and Politics Spring Symposium, Migration, Exile and Polyphonic Spaces

The act and the author. (2014)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2014). The act and the author. In I. Parker, & D. Pavón-Cuéllar (Eds.), Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy (270-278). Routledge

‘O Cursed Spite: On Ethics and Time’ (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2014, January). ‘O Cursed Spite: On Ethics and Time’. Paper presented at Symposium Depsychologizing / Deneurologizing Modern Subjectivity

Foreword to De Vos, Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity. (2013)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2013). Foreword to De Vos, Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity. In Psychologization and the subject of Late Modernity (vi-x). Palgrave Macmillan

El Autor Y El Acto (2013)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2013). El Autor Y El Acto. In Lacan, discurso, acontecimiento: nuevos análisis de la indeterminación textual (317-327)

Beyond identification: the (Im)possibility of Loving Thy Neighbour. (2012)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2012). Beyond identification: the (Im)possibility of Loving Thy Neighbour. In A. Gulerce (Ed.), Re(con)figuring Psychoanalysis: Critical Juxtapositions of the Philosophical, the Sociohistorical and the Political (129-145). Palgrave Macmillan

The Excluded in Identification. (2012)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2012). The Excluded in Identification. In L. Auested (Ed.), Psychoanalisis and Politics :exclusion and the politics of representation. Karnac

‘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

'‘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

‘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

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

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