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When Philosophy and Psychology Seek a Rational-Calculable “Mind”—And Why Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis Resist
Analytic philosophy and academic psychology—two fields that often pride themselves on rigorous methods, formal logic, and testable...
Eric Anders
Feb 910 min read


Why Do Analytic Philosophy, Thomistic Thought, and Virtue Ethics Seem Hostile to Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction?
It’s a question that arises whenever you see these traditions placed side by side. On one side, analytic philosophy , Thomistic thought ,...
Eric Anders
Feb 85 min read


Rethinking the "Da" in “Da-sein” as the Other: Time, Recursivity, and Ethical Becoming
Title: Rethinking “Da-sein” as the Other: Time, Recursivity, and Ethical Becoming What happens if we treat Heidegger’s “da” (the “there”...
Eric Anders
Feb 712 min read


My Ethics of (Cyborgian) Care as Levinasian Ontology? No, but ...
Levinas and Derrida fundamentally reshape our understanding of ontology by bringing ethics to the forefront. Levinas’s insistence on the...
Eric Anders
Feb 44 min read


Thinking Other-Wise: A Genealogy of Radical Inquiry and the Ethics of Encounter
or ... A Proposed Introduction for a Volume on the History of Consciousness Tradition Reimagining Thought, Rethinking Boundaries Thinking...
Eric Anders
Feb 49 min read


Thinking Other-Wise: UCSC’s History of Consciousness and My Research on Unconsciousness
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) offers a graduate program in History of Consciousness that operates as a radically...
Eric Anders
Feb 46 min read


The Enigmatic Other: Laplanchian Seduction, Moral Injury, and the Diseased Cultural Unconscious
Introduction: From Confusion of Tongues to Enigmatic Signifiers In psychoanalysis, the Other is never merely a bystander. Rather, the...
Eric Anders
Feb 27 min read


U5 - AI, Memory, and the Unconscious: Exploring the Politics of Digital Archiving
Course Title AI, Memory, and the Unconscious: Exploring the Politics of Digital Archiving Course Description This course examines the...
Eric Anders
Feb 14 min read


U4 - Artificial Imagination: AI, Ethics, and Creativity
Course Title Artificial Imagination: AI, Ethics, and Creativity Course Description This course examines the ethical and philosophical...
Eric Anders
Feb 15 min read


AI and the Freudian Archive: Silencing, Repetition, and the Politics of Digital Memory
In Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression , Jacques Derrida reveals how Freud’s notion of the death drive permeates the very structure of...
Eric Anders
Feb 15 min read


U3 - American Wars and Moral Injury
American Wars and Moral Injury Course Description This course examines how war inflicts wounds not merely on bodies but on the very...
Eric Anders
Jan 304 min read


Moral Injury and the Ethics of Care: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Deconstruction—and Healthy Narcissism
Care is often conceived in basic terms: to provide assistance, support, or solace to someone in distress. Yet when “care” is placed in...
Eric Anders
Jan 2513 min read


Voices of the Unconscious: Ethics, Representation, and the Interminability of Analysis in The Authors of Silence
Or ... The Interminable Analysis: Ethics, Identity, and the Discourse of the Analyst in The Authors of Silence Or ... The Interminable...
Eric Anders
Jan 216 min read


Moral Injury II: Beyond Good and Evil
Or ... Beyond Good and Evil: The Ethics of Care and the Healing of Moral Injury Or ... Beyond Good and Evil: Reclaiming Meaning and Care...
Eric Anders
Jan 215 min read


Moral Injury I: Beyond “I’ve Done Something Bad”
The concept of moral injury, as defined in contemporary psychology, captures the psychological distress caused by actions—or failures to...
Eric Anders
Jan 214 min read


Intergenerational Pathogens and Identity: Race, Gender, and Violence in "The Authors of Silence"
Or ... Rethinking Identity and Intergenerational Pathogens Through The Authors of Silence : Race, Gender, and Violence in the American...
Eric Anders
Jan 2010 min read


Unconscious Thought, Cultural Memory, and Artificial Intelligence: Derrida’s Lessons for a Digital Age
Or ... The Cultural Unconscious and the AI Ego: Derrida, The Authors of Silence , and the Fevered Archive What does it mean to think of...
Eric Anders
Jan 194 min read


Psychological Health for Beginners: Graphic Novel
Tagline: A father’s dream journey through the unconscious, guided by the ghost of Freud, weaves together personal, cultural, and...
Eric Anders
Jan 154 min read


Syllabus - The Authors of Silence: Theater, Ethics, and the Craft of Narrative
Course Title : The Authors of Silence: Theater, Ethics, and the Craft of Narrative Duration : Semester-long (16 weeks) Instructor : Eric...
Eric Anders
Jan 154 min read


Book Proposal: Bridging Health Humanities and Digital Humanities through Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction
Author: Eric William Anders, Ph.D., Psy.D. Title: Unveiling the Unconscious: Integrating Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction into Health...
Eric Anders
Jan 144 min read
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