Writing
Information about John Holland’s writing and research
Overview
My research takes up literary and social questions in terms of Lacanian theoretical psychoanalysis.
I am currently working on Lacan’s theory of capitalism as a form of discourse and on transmission through the activity of reading in the writings of Henry James. Both of these concern the social bond and its vicissitudes, and involve themes such as the death drive, the compulsion to repeat and contingency/impossibility. Rather than “applying” psychoanalysis by imposing some preconceived grid of knowledge onto a text or a social practice, my methodology explores how the latter are sources of questions that must be directed to psychoanalysis if it is to continue to develop.
An independent scholar, I have pursued this research project in American and French university contexts and as a member of a variety of psychoanalytic groups and organizations.
Publications
| “The Capitalist Uncanny.” S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique, 8 (2015): 96-124.
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| “Capitalism and Psychoanalysis.” S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique, 8 (2015): 1-5. My editorial introduction to the issue section. |
| “Introduction to Lacan’s ‘On a Reform in its Hole’.” S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique, 8 (2015): 6-13. My translator’s introduction to the first English translation of this text by Lacan. For more information, please see the "Primary Source Text" section on the Examples page. |
| “Entretien avec Frédéric Diart, peintre classique.” With Véronique Sidoit (co-author). Psychanalyse, 31.3 (2014): 95-104. |
| “La fin du monde.” In Psychanalyse, 28.3 (2013): 61-76. |
| “Caring for Knowledge: Transmission in ‘The Figure in the Carpet’ and ‘Nona Vincent,’” In Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity, Annick Duperray, Adrian Harding and Dennis Tredy (Eds.), 70-78. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. |
| “Losing Oneself: Autobiography, Memory, Vision.” In Henry James’s Europe: Heritage and Transfer, Annick Duperray, Adrian Harding and Dennis Tredy (Eds.), 263-271. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2011.
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| “‘Scares of all knotknow’ (une lecture d’une passage de Finnegans Wake).” Psychanalyse, 19.3 (2010): 5-14. |
| “Translator’s Note.” In Colette Soler, What Lacan Said About Women: A Psychoanalytic Study, John Holland (Trans.), New York: Other Press, 2006: xiii-xv. |
| “The Mark and the Voice.” In The Clinic of Transference, Colette Soler (Ed.). Paris: Éditions du Champ lacanien, 2004: 147-155.
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| “The Passion of Curiosity.” Alizés/Trade Winds, 23 (2003): 175-184.
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| “Le fétichisme et la parodie dans ‘Nausicaa.’” L’Envers de Paris (École de la Cause freudienne), 20 (1999): 24-6.
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| “Impasse et action.” L’Envers de Paris (École de la Cause freudienne), 19 (1999): 25.
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| “The Palace of Thought.” In Critical Essays on Jacques Lacan, Ellie Ragland (Ed.), 119-41. New York: G.K. Hall, 1999.
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| “George Berkeley.” In American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734, Emory Elliott (Ed.), 304-309. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co, 1984.
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Presentations and Conference Papers
| 29/03/2014 | “Savoir et impasse.” Presented at “Le cartel en question(s),” Rennes plénière, Association Psychanalyse Jacques Lacan, Rennes. |
| 18/02/2014 | “Lire Lacan : Transmission et destins des transmissions.” Presented at the Rennes Collectif, Association Psychanalyse Jacques Lacan, Rennes. |
| 15/01/2013 | “Au sujet du discours capitaliste.” Presented at the Rennes Collectif, Association Psychanalyse Jacques Lacan, Rennes.
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| 22/10/2010 | “Caring for Knowledge: Transmission in ‘The Figure in the Carpet’ and ‘Nona Vincent.’” Presented at The Second International Conference of The European Society of Jamesian Studies, Paris.
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| 26/06/2010 | Participation in a panel discussion on James Joyce, with Jacques Aubert, Pierre Bruno and Patricia León. Final session of the workshop “Le président et l’écrivain: Schreber et Joyce” of the l’Assemblée de Paris, Association Psychanalyse Jacques Lacan, Paris. |
| 29/05/2010 | “‘Scares of all knotknow’ (une lecture d’une passage de Finnegans Wake).” Presented at the workshop “Le président et l’écrivain: Schreber et Joyce” of the l’Assemblée de Paris, Association Psychanalyse Jacques Lacan, Paris. |
| 03/04/2009 | “Losing Oneself: Autobiography/Enigma/Europe.” Presented at The First International Conference of The European Society of Jamesian Studies, Paris.
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| 30/03/2005 | “Inscription and Judgment: Freud, Lacan, Joyce.” Presented at the preparatory session of the Séminaire en langue anglaise, Forums du champ lacanien, Paris. |
| 27/06/2003 | “Lacan’s Dog or The Mark and The Voice.” Presented at the Séminaire en langue anglaise of the Forums du champ lacanien, Paris. |
| 06/07/2002 | “The Passion of Curiosity: Doubling and Disavowal in ‘The Jolly Corner.’” Presented at Henry James Today held at The American University in Paris, Paris. |
| 20/01/1999 | “Le fétichisme et la parodie dans ‘Nausicaa.’” Presented to a L’envers de Paris study group, L’école de la cause freudienne, Paris. |
| 10/10/1998 | “Poverties and Honours: The Symbolization of Absence in The Portrait of a Lady.” Presented at the pre-agregation conference held at the University of Paris IV, Paris. |
| 25/03/1995 | “La résistance à Lacan dans l’université nord-américaine.” Presented to a L’envers de Paris study group, L’école de la cause freudienne, Paris. |
| 16/11/1991 | “Temples and Homes in The Wings of the Dove.” Midwestern Modern Language Association annual conference, Chicago. |
| 31/10/1991 | “The Jouissance of the Letter in Henry James’s The Sacred Fount.” Presented at the History and Hysteria conference at The University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. |
University Work
| Ph.D. dissertation in English language and literature, Princeton University, 1993 “Henry James and the Question of Subjectivity” Director: Lee Clark Mitchell |
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Mémoire de D.E.A. (Master’s thesis) in psychoanalysis, University of Paris 8, 1998 “Le nom propre et la nomination : Russell et Gardiner avec Lacan” Director: Pierre Bruno |
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