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Undecidable
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Lacan, the Discourse of the Analyst, and Practical Lack
Paul Ricoeur Lacanian psychoanalytic theory occupies a central place in the Western tradition of the what philosopher Paul Ricœur called...
Eric Anders
Dec 16, 20249 min read
Combined Teaching Statement and Commitment to Justice, Equity, and Antiracism (JEA)
Justice, equity, antiracism (JEA), and LGBTQ+ inclusion form the foundation of my teaching philosophy. I strive to create a learning...
Eric Anders
Dec 15, 20249 min read
Proposal: "Losing Our Grip: Revisiting Saul Bellow's Seize the Day in Trump's America"
Author: Eric W. Anders, Ph.D., Psy.D. Title: Losing Our Grip: Rereading Saul Bellow's Seize the Day in Trump's America Category:...
Eric Anders
Dec 14, 20244 min read
Outline for "Losing Our Grip: Revisiting Saul Bellow's Seize the Day in Trump's America"
Introduction: Trauma, Relationality, and the Post-Holocaust Crisis of Meaning Core Themes : Seize the Day as a reflection of...
Eric Anders
Dec 14, 20243 min read
The Actual Phallic Function: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Two Films by Lars von Trier (a 1998 lecture given in Oslo, Norway)
Introduction: A Lecture at the University of Oslo, 1998 In 1998, I gave a lecture titled “The Actual Phallic Function: Lacanian...
Eric Anders
Dec 14, 202420 min read
Abstract for Almerindo Antonio Boff's Freud, Lacan, Derrida: Psychoanalysis in Différance (unofficial translation)
Freud, Lacan, Derrida: Psychoanalysis in Différance by Almerindo Antonio Boff My Unofficial Translation of Boff's Abstract: When Freud...
Eric Anders
Dec 14, 20242 min read
Disturbing Psychoanalytic Origins: A Derridean Reading of Freudian Theory
Abstract: This study offers a Derridean reading of Freud, exploring how we might engage with Freud’s work on sexual difference and...
Eric Anders
Dec 13, 20244 min read
The Lacanian Other: Desire, Relationality, and the Reimagining of the Humanities in Dialogue with Derrida
Lacan’s concept of the Other ( l’Autre ) offers a profound lens for understanding human subjectivity, relationality, and the structures...
Eric Anders
Dec 12, 20245 min read
Revisiting Seize the Day: Feminist Critiques, Embodied Care, and the Gendered Foundations of Relationality
Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day offers a poignant exploration of relational disintegration and embodied despair. Yet, through the lens of...
Eric Anders
Dec 12, 20244 min read
Feminist Critique of Seize the Day: Psychoanalysis, Relationality, and Embodied Care
Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day offers a compelling exploration of relational failure and existential despair. However, when examined...
Eric Anders
Dec 12, 20244 min read
Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day: The Post-Holocaust Everyman and the Crisis of Relationality
Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day , published in 1956, is often read as a meditation on the relational and existential disintegration of its...
Eric Anders
Dec 11, 20244 min read
Saul Bellow's Seize the Day and Buddhism's Lack of a Mitsein Ontology of Care: Relational Disintegration and Horney's Moral Masochism
In my 1994 master's thesis, Self and Suffering in Saul Bellow's Seize the Day: A Horneyan Interpretation of the Protagonist, I argued...
Eric Anders
Dec 10, 20248 min read
Empathy, Embodiment, and Care: How the Radical Complexity of Transference Secures the Embodied Psychoanalytic Frame
In " Let Us Not Forget the Clinic ," I critique the tendency of academic psychoanalysis to drift into abstraction, prioritizing...
Eric Anders
Dec 10, 20246 min read
U1 - Narrative Arts and Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Course Description: This course explores the intersection of narrative arts and contemporary psychoanalysis, focusing on the dynamics of...
Eric Anders
Dec 9, 20243 min read
U2 - Uncanny Monsters of the Narrative Arts: From Frankenstein to Ghosts to Cyborgs
Course Summary: This undergraduate course explores how the narrative arts—literature, film, and drama—employ monstrous figures such as...
Eric Anders
Dec 9, 20244 min read
G1 - The Narrative Arts and Lacan's Four Discourses
Course Summary: This graduate course explores how the narrative arts (literature, film, drama, etc.) interact with Lacan’s four...
Eric Anders
Dec 9, 202411 min read
Archive Fever's "Freudian Impression," the Digital Humanities, and the Ethics of Cyborgian Care
The field of Digital Humanities (DH) , though formally established in the early 2000s, has roots that trace back to mid-20th-century...
Eric Anders
Dec 8, 202412 min read
A Vision for a Health Humanities Center: Healing the Cultural Unconscious
This is an aspirational vision for a Health Humanities Center at a dream university—one that bridges psychoanalytic psychotherapy...
Eric Anders
Dec 2, 20244 min read
Barnaby B. Barratt: radical psychoanalyst, philosopher, somatic psychologist, tantric practioner
Though the simple cover of Barnaby B. Barratt's 1993 book, Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse: Knowing and Being since Freud's...
Eric Anders
Dec 2, 20248 min read
Unpacking the Trump Cult: Psychoanalysis, the Authoritarian Personality, and the Humanities
The rise of authoritarian movements, exemplified in the United States by the cult-like following of Donald Trump, compels us to examine...
Eric Anders
Dec 2, 20244 min read
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