{"id":2102,"date":"2025-06-10T20:14:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:42:18","slug":"life-drive-and-the-feminine-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"A Culture of Psychosis?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Join us for this exclusive one-off day event exploring whether we’re living in a “culture of psychosis” in our era of fake news, conspiracy theories, and fractured realities.<\/h5>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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A Culture of Psychosis?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1979, Christopher Lasch published his epoch-defining book The Culture of Narcissism<\/em><\/em>. While there is no reason to suspect narcissism is in any way in decline, over 45 years after Lasch, we are most certainly in a different time. With the invention of social media and the decentralisation of information has come a disintegration of consensus on basic facts. Fake news, conspiracy theories and competing narratives all abound, leaving us considerably less in the way of any surety as to what is really<\/em><\/em> going on. From a psychoanalytic perspective, these conditions might be thought to be ripe for a culture of psychosis. This one-day event will pick up this question, exploring what it might mean to live in a time of psychosis, if this is the case or even if this is a helpful way of thinking about what is going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jack Black<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A Psychoanalytic Exploration<\/em> (Routledge, 2021) and The Psychosis of Race<\/em> (Routledge, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leon S. Brenner <\/strong>is a psychoanalyst and a research fellow at the University of Potsdam, Institute for Philosophy, Germany. His publications include The Autistic Subject<\/em> (Palgrave, 2020), Against Reality<\/em> <\/em>(Everyday Analysis, 2024) and the forthcoming Infinity: The Subject of Love in Lacan and Badiou<\/em> <\/em>(Palgrave, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calum Neill<\/strong> <\/strong>is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Continental Philosophy at Edinburgh Napier University and host of Lacan in Scotland. His publications include Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity<\/em>(Palgrave, 2014), Ethics and Psychology<\/em> <\/em>(Routledge, 2016) and Jacques Lacan: The Basics<\/em>(Routledge, 2023) and Z<\/em>a<\/em>k<\/em>L<\/em>a<\/em>k<\/em>a<\/em>n<\/em> <\/em>(Pedio Books, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stijn Vanheule<\/strong> is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Ghent University and a privately practicing psychoanalyst. His publications include The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective<\/em> <\/em>(Palgrave, 2011),<\/em> Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited \u2013 From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation<\/em> <\/em>(Palgrave, 2017) and Why Psychosis is not so Crazy<\/em>(Other Press, 2024).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fabio Vighi<\/strong> is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University. His publications include: Emergency Capitalism: Financial Hubris, Economic Collapse, and Systemic Manipulation<\/em> (Sublation Media, 2024); Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: a Philosophy of Immanence<\/em> <\/em>(Bloomsbury, 2023, co-edited with Riccardo Panattoni); and Unworkable: Delusions of an Imploding Civilization<\/em> (SUNY Press, 2022).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

This one-day event takes place Friday 27 June 2025 at 10am-4pm British Summer Time (BST)<\/strong> in Edinburgh, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Address<\/strong>: Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus
10 Colinton Road, Room H11
Edinburgh EH10 5DT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tickets are \u00a310 and available on Eventbrite<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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