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The site is intended, first and foremost, to indicate my own publications. I have annotated my bibliography with some personal details.
I have published work on clinical psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and the history of psychoanalysis, and various aspects of the application of psychoanalysis. I have included some biographical details that I hope will help to place this work in a systematic, yet also personal context. The sections are partly thematic, and partly chronological. The site will change from time to time as I add new items to the bibliography, and indeed new interests as they develop. From time to time I propose to upload text files of some papers in draft form that I am working on. And any comments will be gratefully received. I would be very pleased to hear any comments you have, quarrels with, or criticisms of, my work. Thank you for your interest. I hope that you will return again, and will find it helpful and informative. |
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In prospect:
Since covid times, which were a kind of boundary phenomenon, I think of myself as in a tidying up phase of my life. There have been a number of projects that have a long history in my life. I anticipate some of the following.
Since covid times, which were a kind of boundary phenomenon, I think of myself as in a tidying up phase of my life. There have been a number of projects that have a long history in my life. I anticipate some of the following.
- My long-digested book on political thoughts (and convictions) finally emerged last year, titled: Unconscious Politics: Alienation, Social Science and Psychoanalysis. And this year a companion to that will be a book of previous papers on the topic of alienation. It will include several email-dialogues on these papers engaged between myself and Giuseppe Caruso who suggested and massively helped with the selection and then the dialogues. This should appear in the autumn of this year under the title: Alienation: Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Political Issues. My position is to avoid being extremist and thus avoid angry Marxism as well as radical right-wing exploitation. It is radically centrist if you like; its extremism is to avoid extremes.
- Now my final (I think) two book projects, will comprise (I hope) firstly an attempt at a conceptual level to compare Wilfred Bion with his colleague and rival Donald Winnicott, although I have completed two books of comparison with Jan Abram on Klein, Winnicott and Bion. Both the latter were rivals for Melanie Klein’s approval. In the end, Bion won. But I seek to trace the ‘contest’ in terms of their conceptualisations of common clinical observations. One such is the obvious holding and containing, which are often held to be equivalent. However, they are not; they hold within them a critical divergence that makes any operational use incompatible with each other.
- The second of these book projects is a book, to be titled: Mind You, provoked by an invitation (from the Institute for Arts and Ideas) for a psychoanalytic view of how to test an entity for consciousness. Of course this has not been a recent interest, and despite the complexities of philosophical debate, I have tried for a long time to capture what consciousness is. I do however reduce it to the subjectivity a psychoanalyst is familiar with, and I argue that means self-consciousness. That does not simplify it, because it introduces the question of what ‘self’ is. But it is a step further on from ignoring the nature of self as if human consciousness can exist without it.
- Finally at this point, I should also mention a special issue of the journal Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Initiated by Igor Romanov, this is on Pluralism in Psychoanalysis. I have known Igor since he first invited me to lecture in Kharkiv in the Ukraine in the year 2000, when he was part of a group setting up a psychoanalytic society there. The date of this special issue is as yet undetermined although all the contributions are now with the journal editor.
MY WORK
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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
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