RU234: DRS DEREK HOOK & STIJN VANHEULE ON LACAN ON DEPRESSION & MELANCHOLIA

Rendering Unconscious episode 234.

Drs. Derek Hook and Stijn Vanheule are here to discuss their new book Lacan on Depression and Melancholia (2023). https://www.routledge.com/Lacan-on-Depression-and-Melancholia/Hook-Vanheule/p/book/9781032106533

Derek Hook is an associate professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, USA, and an extraordinary professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the author of Six Moments in Lacan (2018), and with Calum Neill, he edits the Palgrave Lacan Series. Be sure to check out his YouTube channel.

Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist and professor at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also a privately practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective (2011), Diagnosis, the DSM: A Critical Review (2014), and Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited: From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation (2017).

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This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/6yAe_Qk1tkA

Be sure to check out the Reading Lacan’s Ecrits book series edited by Derek Hook, Stijn Vanheule, and Calum Neill.

Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’ (2018)

Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘The Freudian Thing’ to ‘Remarks on Daniel Lagache’ (2019)

Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Logical Time’ to ‘Response to Jean Hyppolite’ (2022)

Listen to previous discussions with Drs. Hook and Vanheule:

RU30: PROFESSOR STIJN VANHEULE, PSYCHOANALYST & PSYCHOLOGIST ON DSM, TREATMENT

RU42: PROFESSOR DEREK HOOK ON POST-COLONIAL PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY

RU159: SHELDON GEORGE, DEREK HOOK, MICHELLE STEPHENS & SHEILA CAVANAGH ON LACAN & RACE

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The song at the end of the episode is “Inside you is outside me (Hymnambulae Remix)” from Carl Abrahamsson’s album The larval stage of a bookworm (remixed).
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Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com

Image: book cover