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)
  • Psychoanalytische Perspectieven
  • The Journal of European Psychoanalysis
  • Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis
  • Millennium: Journal of International Studies
  • Žižek and Political Subjectivity, a special issue of Subjectivity, Vol 3.1
  • 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

  • Autism in the Contemporary Lacanian Clinic
  • Social Superego and Liberation
  • Racialization and the Sexuated Subject
  • Which Discourse Theory? Lacan, Emergency Capitalism & Paranoia
  • Lacanian Remains: Excavating Function and Field
  • Life Drive and the Feminine
  • Freud's Alibi and Lacan's New Triumph Religion
  • Francis Bacon: Attacking the Self-Portrait
  • Fatigue as Resistance to the Ideologies of Late Capitalism
  • Brazil: Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of Dictatorship
  • 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
  • SEX, AI and the Enigma of Reproduction
  • Crisis? What Crisis? Fantasies of Masculinity in Contemporary Cinema

 

Reviewing

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

 

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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

‘Imagining meaning: a Lacanian introduction to discourse analysis’.

Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2011, November)
‘Imagining meaning: a Lacanian introduction to discourse analysis’. Presented at Open University Social Sciences Seminar, Open University, Milton Keynes

Antigone: Raw Female

Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2011, August)
Antigone: Raw Female. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy, York St John University

What would have been: nostalgia, fantasy and the past of the future.

Presentation / Conference
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, Witswatersrand University, Johannesburg

Echo’s response: on identification and the necessary limitations of discursive research.

Presentation / Conference
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, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity.

Book
Neill, C. (2010)
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 ...

One amongst many: the ethical significance of Antigone and the films of Lars von Trier.

Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2010)
One amongst many: the ethical significance of Antigone and the films of Lars von Trier. In S. E. Wilmer, & A. Zukauskaite (Eds.), Interrogating Antigone in postmodern philosophy and criticism, 135-146. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199559213.003.0008
Like Sophocles' Antigone, the work of Lars von Trier is often called upon to illustrate a point regarding ethics. Among those who so use these works are many Lacanians, such a...

Žižek, political philosophy and subjectivity

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?

Journal Article
Neill, C. (2009)
Who wants to be in rational love?. Annual review of critical psychology : action research, 7, 140-150

Žižek and Lacan

Book
(2008)
C. Neill (Ed.), Žižek and Lacan. IJŽS

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