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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‘O Cursed Spite: On Ethics and Time’

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

‘The Evil I Retreat from In Myself: Nationalism and das Ding’

Book
Neill, C. (2013)
‘The Evil I Retreat from In Myself: Nationalism and das Ding’. In Nationalism and the Body Politic, 209-222. London: Karnac Books
No abstract available.

The act and the author.

Book
Neill, C. (2013)
The act and the author. In Parker, I. & Pavón-Cuéllar, D. (Eds.). Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy, 270-278. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-52163-5

Foreword to De Vos, Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity.

Book
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

Book
Neill, C. (2013)
El Autor Y El Acto. In Lacan, discurso, acontecimiento: nuevos análisis de la indeterminación textual, 317-327. ISBN 978-607-402-597-2

Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis

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 provi...

‘On imaginary identification and the possibility of meaning’

Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2012, December)
‘On imaginary identification and the possibility of meaning’. Presented at Psychosocial Studies Seminar, Birkbeck College, London

'‘The logic of fantasy’: comments on Lacan’s seminar XIV’.

Presentation / Conference
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., Cardiff University

‘Sarah Lucas and the photographic gaze’.

Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2012, February)
‘Sarah Lucas and the photographic gaze’. Presented at Stills Gallery, Theory of the Image, Stills Gallery

Beyond identification: the (Im)possibility of Loving Thy Neighbour.

Book
Neill, C. (2011)
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

Current Post Grad projects

Previous Post Grad projects

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

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