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
  • Life Drive and the Feminine
  • Freud's Alibi and Lacan's New Triumph Religion
  • Which Discourse Theory? Lacan, Emergency Capitalism & Paranoia
  • Lacanian Remains: Excavating Function and Field
  • Racialization and the Sexuated Subject
  • 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
  • SEX, AI and the Enigma of Reproduction
  • Fatigue as Resistance to the Ideologies of Late Capitalism
  • Brazil: Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of Dictatorship
  • 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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Intersubjectivity and the (im)possibility of connection

Book
(2008)
D. Hook, & C. Neill (Eds.), Intersubjectivity and the (im)possibility of connection. Palgrave MacMillan

Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito

Journal Article
Neill, C. (2008)
Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito. Subjectivity, 24(1), 325-339. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2008.21
This paper explores a Lacanian approach towards inter-subjectivity and a consideration of how such an approach might impact constructively on social psychology. Drawing largel...

The Lacanian gaze.

Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2008, February)
The Lacanian gaze. Presented at Department of Social Psychology Seminar, LSE, London

The Lacanian subject.

Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2007, March)
The Lacanian subject. Presented at Department of Social Psychology Seminar, LSE, London

‘Wit(h)nessing the other?’

Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2007, January)
‘Wit(h)nessing the other?’. Presented at Research Institute for Health and Social Change Seminar, Manchester Metropolitan University

Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy.

Journal Article
Neill, C. (2006)
Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy. 880-01 Gramma : journal of theory and criticism = Gramma : periodiko theōrias kai kritikēs, 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 th...

The Locus of Judgement in Lacan's Ethics

Journal Article
Neill, C. (2005)
The Locus of Judgement in Lacan's Ethics. Journal for Lacanian studies. 3, 85-100. ISSN 1477-3635
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...

An idiotic act: on the non-example Of Antigone.

Journal Article
Neill, C. (2005)
An idiotic act: on the non-example Of Antigone. Janus head. 34, 1-28. ISSN 1524-2269

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