B.A. M.A. (New Brunswick - Fredericton), Ph.D. (Trent), Ph.D. (ABD European Graduate School)
Thesis: Lacanian Realism
Examining Committee:
Charmaine Eddy (Supervisor), Elaine Stavro, Davide Panagia
External Examiner: Clive Thomson, University of Guelph
Internal Examiner: Jonathan Bordo
Chair: Yves Thomas
Abstract
The overarching argument of this manuscript concerns Lacanian Realism, that is, the Lacanian theory of the Real. Initially, my argument may seem quite modest: I claim that Lacanians have been preoccupied with a particular modality of the Real, one that insists on interrupting, limiting, or exceeding the various orders or agencies of the human mind. The implications of such a position are worth considering. For example, one must, as a consequence of holding this position, bracket questions pertaining to Things outside of the Symbolic and Imaginary psychical systems. Careful study shall expose the extent to which this position has infuenced each of the major felds inspired by Jacques Lacan: clinical psychoanalysis, radical political philosophy, and mathematics or topology. My task has been to explore the consequent occlusion which psychoanalysis has suffered in each of these three felds and to tease out the possibility of a return to the Real.
Duane Rousselle, PhD, maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis within the Lacanian clinical orientation. His practice is located at Bayridge Counselling Centres in Mississauga, Ontario (Canada). Duane has a particular clinical focus on anxiety disorders, depression, eatingdisorders, obsessive behaviour, and panic attacks. He also focuses on unleashing inhibited creative and professional potential. He is also an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, New Brunswick (Canada).