About Lacan in Scotland
Lacan in Scotland flags and provides opportunities for engaging with Lacanian psychoanalysis and related theories in Scotland. It aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, researchers, students and the public involved or interested in psychoanalysis. By doing so, we are committed to promoting psychoanalysis and making it accessible in Scotland/North of England and around the world.
We run monthly seminars in Edinburgh (now online on Zoom) where prominent as well as new scholars and clinicians all over the world present on pertinent topics in relation to Lacanian psychoanalysis and related theories, and engage in discussions.
About the Members
Professor Calum Neill
Founder & Director
Professor of Psychoanalysis & Cultural Theory at Edinburgh Napier University. Author of Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity (Palgrave, 2014), editor of The Palgrave Lacan Series and co-editor of the three volume companion to Lacan’s Écrits (Routledge, 2018).
Dr Amanda Diserholt
Secretary
Lecturer in Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University and Lacanian scholar. Completed PhD thesis entitled Fatigue and the Mind-Body Relation: A Lacanian Exploration at Edinburgh Napier University in November, 2020.
Oliver Cutler
Co-organiser
PhD Candidate in Psychoanalysis and Film Theory at Edinburgh Napier University, supervised by Professor Calum Neill. Current research focuses on how representations of the ‘monstrous feminine’ impact upon spectatorial desire in science fiction cinema.