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

Projection, Castration Anxiety, and Sadistic Fantasies:  Lars von Trier’s cinema can be read as a sustained act of acting out  – the...

Introduction Lars von Trier has built a reputation as a cinematic provocateur, but beneath the shock value of his films lies a deeper...

Course Description: Lars von Trier is one of the most controversial filmmakers of contemporary cinema, often celebrated for his audacious...

Allow me to begin with Julie Bindel’s incisive 2009 review of Antichrist , Lars von Trier’s ninth film overall but his fifth major...

Course Title: Moral Wounds and Racial Phantoms: Psychoanalysis, War Trauma, and American Racial History Instructor: Dr. Eric W. Anders,...

Introduction America’s wars have left deep psychic scars—“moral injuries”—on those who fought them and on the peoples caught in their...

Title Options for the Blog Post: "Moral Injury and the Failure of Symbolic Mediation: Lacan, Jared Russell, and the Ethics of Care"...

Introduction Research Question:  How can Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic ethics, especially his concept of the Real, illuminate the...

The concept of moral injury —a profound rupture in an individual’s ethical or spiritual framework following catastrophic events—has...

The concept of moral injury —the profound rupture in an individual’s ethical or spiritual framework following catastrophic events—has...

Course Description This course explores how, in the “wild spaces” of human experience, an ethic of care emerges as both a fragile...

Alternate titles: The Undecidable Unconscious and Decidable Care: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Necessity of Embodied, Messy...

In my writings on the ethics of care  and embodied empathy , I have argued that psychoanalysis—particularly if it is to remain...

The war on the humanities is no longer a looming threat—it is here. The second Trump administration, bolstered by far-right cultural...

Introduction: The Misnomer of Chaos Theory The name “chaos theory”  suggests a radical break from traditional scientific and mathematical...

Alternate Titles: Narrating Crisis: Authoritarianism, Climate Change, and the Power of Story Fictions of Control: Politics, Climate, and...

The Uncanny, the Sublime, and the End of the Human Instructor:  Eric W. Anders, Ph.D., Psy.D. Course Level:  Upper-Division Undergraduate...

In a 2022 Chronicle of Higher Education  piece titled “ What Was Deconstruction? ” Timothy Brennan of the University of Minnesota offers...

When The Chronicle of Higher Education  recently resurfaced Timothy Brennan 's seven-year-old critique—arguing that the Digital...