What follows is a close reading of how Virgil explores memory in the Aeneid , focusing especially on its roles in grief, legacy,...

Thanks, Eric. I’ll draft a comprehensive revised proposal for Psychological Health for Beginners  that captures the full scope of your...

Uncanny Insights: Sharing “What Does AI Lack?” In a recent post, the question “What does AI lack?”  was posed as a way to probe the gap...

Or ... The Question of Thought in the Age of AI: Derrida, Freud, Lacan Or ... Does AI think ? Rethinking Thought with Derrida, Freud, and...

Introduction Human beings are meaning-making  creatures. We endure pain and hardship more readily when these experiences seem to mean...

Course Level:  Upper-division undergraduate (no prerequisites required) Institution:  Oregon State University, School of History,...

The deliberately provocative title of this course serves as a critical starting point—highlighting precisely the symptomatic nature of...

Alternate titles: Ethics in the Age of Undecidability: Why AI Lacks an Unconscious and What That Means for AI Governance The Symbolic...

When we talk about ethical AI, we often assume that artificial intelligence systems can—or at least should—be inherently ethical. But...

Derrida’s Archive Fever : Memory, Language, and the Archival Impulse Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever  ( Mal d’Archive , 1995) is a...

Introduction The digital age has ushered in unprecedented capacities to record, store, and recall information, leading the humanities...

Introduction In 1998, I presented a paper at the Nordic Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Research (NIKK) in Oslo that critically...

Introduction The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization  (2022)—which overturned Roe v. Wade  and...

From JUMP CUT: A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA by Carey Snyder and Eric Anders Jump Cut, no. 40, March 1996, pp. 21-23 The passionate...

The Analysis of a Repression            In “Freud and the Scene of Writing,” Derrida argues that “[d]espite appearances, the...

In The Interpretation of Dreams , Freud argues that psychoanalysis finds “no fundamental, but only quantitative, distinctions between...

In this chapter, I show how Freud’s system-making begins very much in terms of gap-filling, a process at least related to what I have...

Abstract: This paper—my 1994 thesis for my Master of Liberal Arts at Harvard University—offers a psychoanalytic reading of Saul Bellow’s...

A Feminist Impetus, Not Just a Methodological Turn In the early 1990s, my shift from what was then called applied psychoanalysis  to what...

Foreword: A Longstanding Engagement with von Trier and Lacanian Theory My engagement with Lars von Trier’s work and its fraught...