Calum Neill
Calum Neill

Dr Calum Neill

Professor

 0131 455 6169

  C.Neill@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

Calum Neill is a leading figure in the world of Lacanian theory, with particular expertise in ethics, discourse and subjectivity. He is the author of three groundbreaking books, co-editor of the Reading Lacan's Ecrits three volume collection and the editor of The Palgrave Lacan Series. He is also the founder and director of Lacan In Scotland, a research group which hosts monthly public seminars.

Calum is the University's Professorial Leader for Research Degrees, convening the University's Research Degrees Committee and co-ordinating research degrees provision across the institution.

He supervises PhDs in psychoanalytic and related theory.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Lacan's Ecrits Conference 2018
  • Discourse, Poetry and Possibility

 

Editorial Activity

  • The Palgrave Lacan Series
  • Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología (2015)
  • The Journal of European Psychoanalysis
  • Psychoanalytische Perspectieven
  • Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis
  • Žižek and Political Subjectivity, a special issue of Subjectivity, Vol 3.1
  • Millennium: Journal of International Studies
  • Intersubjectivity and the (Im)possibility of Connection, a special issue of Subjectivity no.24
  • Žižek and Lacan, a special issue of the International Journal of Žižek Studies, Vol.2 No.2
  • The International Journal of Žižek Studies
  • The Annual Review of Critical Psychology

 

External Examining/Validations

  • PhD examination
  • PhD examination
  • External PhD Examiner
  • External Examiner at Brunel University

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Senior Fellow of Advance HE

 

Invited Speaker

  • Psychoanalysis in the 21st century
  • The Only Good Father
  • EthicalEthical Dilemma: Codes of Practice, why they don't work and why we need them

 

Media Activity

  • New Books in Psychoanalysis Podcast Interview

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Social Superego and Liberation
  • Autism in the Contemporary Lacanian Clinic
  • Which Discourse Theory? Lacan, Emergency Capitalism & Paranoia
  • Lacanian Remains: Excavating Function and Field
  • Life Drive and the Feminine
  • Racialization and the Sexuated Subject
  • Freud's Alibi and Lacan's New Triumph Religion
  • Francis Bacon: Attacking the Self-Portrait
  • Desire in the Era of Neoliberalism
  • A Lacanian Approach to Dreams and the Unconscious
  • Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context – A Book Launch
  • Anticipation and Medicine – Is Screening Necessarily a Good Thing?
  • The Dialectic of Populist Desire: No Deal/Halloween Special
  • Fatigue as Resistance to the Ideologies of Late Capitalism
  • Brazil: Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of Dictatorship
  • SEX, AI and the Enigma of Reproduction
  • Crisis? What Crisis? Fantasies of Masculinity in Contemporary Cinema

 

Reviewing

  • Language and Psychoanalysis
  • Rowman & Littlefield
  • Frontiers in Psychoanalysis
  • Theory and Event
  • Millennium: Journal of International Studies
  • Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • The Journal of Peace Psychology
  • The Journal of Asian and African Studies
  • Subjectivity
  • Routledge
  • Theory and Psychology
  • Comparative Literature Studies
  • Organization
  • Angelaki: the Journal of Theoretical Humanities
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Psychology and Society
  • Sage
  • Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society

 

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The particular in poetry, or how psychology has colonised the expression of experience.

Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2016, June)
The particular in poetry, or how psychology has colonised the expression of experience. Paper presented at 33rd International Conference on Psychology and the Arts

Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice

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

Lacan’s master-signifier revisited, or Mandela and repression.

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

‘Not to Naught: Paul Celan and the necessary failure of the ever coming word’.

Presentation / Conference
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, Institute of Psychoanalysis, London

Dangling above the swamps of nothingness.

Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2015, September)
Dangling above the swamps of nothingness. Paper presented at 2015 SEP-FEP Joint Annual Conference: New Frontiers, Dundee University

The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience

Book Chapter
Neill, C. (in press)
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 'Variations on the Standard Treatment'. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780415707954
No abstract available.

‘Ethics, discourse, experience’.

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

Through a glass darkly: the fantasmatic figure of the immigrant.

Presentation / Conference
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, Spanish Psychoanalytic Society, Barcelona

‘Repetition / Interpretation / Failure: Towards an Ethics of Discourse Analysis’

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

Without ground: Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity.

Book
Neill, C. (2014)
Without ground: Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity. Palgrave Macmillan
In this new paperback edition, Calum Neill explores the ideas of Jacques Lacan to present a powerful argument for an approach to ethics which is neither rooted in a traditiona...

Current Post Grad projects

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Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • Director of Studies for PhD candidate at Universidad Nacional de Rosario