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?

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..

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.

‘Ethics, discourse, experience’. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2015, May). ‘Ethics, discourse, experience’. Presented at Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland

‘Repetition / Interpretation / Failure: Towards an Ethics of Discourse Analysis’ (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2015, March). ‘Repetition / Interpretation / Failure: Towards an Ethics of Discourse Analysis’. Presented at Manchester University, Discursive Practice Workshop

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Embarking from Beckett's famous lines from Worstward Ho, this paper considers the import of the quotation in context to dispel the commonplace motivational reading of the quota... Read More about ‘Repetition / Interpretation / Failure: Towards an Ethics of Discourse Analysis’.

‘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

Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity. (2011)
Book
Neill, C. (2011). Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity. Palgrave Macmillan

However we conceive of ethics, whether by appeal to an exterior or traditional notion of right and wrong, or by appeal to some form of individual virtue or responsibility, it implies some form of agency. Where there is an ethical act, there must be s... Read More about Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity..

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