{"id":162,"date":"2017-02-22T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2019-02-17T09:41:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T09:41:46","slug":"event-into-the-wild-a-lacanian-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Event: ‘Into the Wild’: A Lacanian Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Into the Wild’:<\/strong><\/span>
\n A Lacanian Reading<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

with Derek Hook, Michael Miller, Calum Neill<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Friday 10th of March, 13:00 – 15:00<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Edinburg Napier University<\/span>
\n Sighthill Campus<\/span>
\nRoom 2D13<\/span><\/p>\n

FREE and open to all<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Facebook Event<\/strong>:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/823683131103962\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The tragic story of Christopher McCandless’s 1992 expedition into the Alaskan wilderness captured the imagination of many as it was told by Sean Penn\u2019s film Into the Wild<\/em><\/span>. The young McCandless turned his back on a prosperous middle class life, breaking with friends and family, took on a new name, and pursued a solitary life in the hope of a purer existence. He came to be considered a hero by some, a disturbed loner by others.<\/p>\n

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This panel will highlight a series of crucial social and clinical issues brought to light by McCandless\u2019s story: How should we read McCandless’s motivations, in view of the personal and social circumstances of his escape ‘into the wild’? Do McCandless’s actions provide us with a model of a radical ethical event, an attempt to break completely with the social context and values of his upbringing? The panel will examine McCandless\u2019s story to better understand a series of psychoanalytic notions including the death drive, melancholia, passage \u00e0 l\u2019acte<\/em>, the neurosis\/psychosis distinction, and the idea of subjective destitution.<\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>Derek Hook<\/strong> is an Associate Professor at Duquesne University and a practitioner of psychoanalysis. He is the author of numerous books, including the forthcoming\u00a0 Six Moments in Lacan <\/em>(Routledge, 2017). He is also the co-editor of the Palgrave Lacan Series and the forthcoming four volume companion to Lacan\u2019s \u00c8crits<\/em> (Routledge, 2018).
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Michael Miller<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor at Upstate University New York and a practicing psychotherapist. He is the author of Lacanian Psychotherapy: Theory and Practical Applications<\/em> (Routledge, 2011).<\/p>\n

Calum Neill<\/strong> is a Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University. He is the author of Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity <\/em>(Palgrave, 2014) and Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice <\/em>(Routledge, 2016). He is also the co-editor of the Palgrave Lacan Series and the forthcoming four volume companion to Lacan\u2019s \u00c8crits <\/em>(Routledge, 2018).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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