Thomas Eyers (2011–2013)

Ph.D., Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University

M.A., University of Cambridge Mphil. in Social Anthropological Research

B.A., University of Cambridge 1^st Class BA Honours in Social Anthropology

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Books

Lacan and the Concept of the ‘Real’

Forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan (August/September 2012)

Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology and Marxism in Post-War France
In progress

Book Contributions
‘Question for debate’ in B. Latour, G. Harman and P. Erdélyi, The Prince and the Wolf : Latour and Harman at the LSE, (London, Zero Books, 2011)

‘Psychoanalysis and French Philosophy of Science’, in Being Psychoanalytic: Philosophy, Science, Art, ed. Roger Hunt, (Boston, Botolph Books, 2012)

Publications in Journals
Psychoanalytic Structuralism and the ‘Cahiers pour l’Analyse’

Forthcoming in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 18.1, 2013

Bachelard, Lacan, and the Impurity of Scientific Formalization

Forthcoming in Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, November 2012

The ‘Signifier-in-Relation’, the ‘Signifier-in-Isolation’, and the Concept of the ‘Real’ in Lacan
Forthcoming in Parrhesia, 2012

Lacanian Materialism and the Question of the Real, Cosmos and History 7.1, 2011, pp.155-166

Rethinking the Dialectic: Hegel with Lacan, Derrida with Foucault, and the Question of Dialectical Ethics
Studies in Social and Political Thought 14, 2007, pp.3-21

Deleuze, Canguilhem, and the Problem of Life
Under review at Continental Philosophy Review
Returns of the Imaginary: The Interaction of the Real and the Imaginary in Jacques Lacan’s Theory of Identification
Under review at Theory and Psychology

Review essay on Simon Skempton Alienation After Derrida Historical Materialism 19.3, 2011, pp.190-195(6)

Review of Alenka Zupančič The Odd One In : On Comedy Radical Philosophy 155, 2009, pp.60-62

Review of Matt Ffytche The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche Forthcoming in Radical Philosophy, 2012

Review of Alberto Toscano Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea Marx and Philosophy Review of Books 2010

Review of Michael Lewis Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing Derrida Today 4.2, 2011, pp.281-284

Review of Lorenzo Chiesa Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan European Journal of Psychoanalysis 28, 2010, pp.112-117

Review of Alain Badiou Theory of the Subject Marx and Philosophy Review of Books 2010
http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2010/203

Review of Ian Parker Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity Marx and Philosophy Review of Books 2011
http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/278

Contributions to AHRC-funded project ‘Concept and Form: the Cahiers pour l’Analyse and Contemporary French Thought’ at CRMEP, Kingston University. http://www.kingston.ac.uk/cahiers

Paid Writing Assignments
Review essay on Benjamin Noys The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory Mute Magazine 2011

http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/think-negative

Conference Presentations
Lacanian Materialism and the Question of the Real at 'Real Objects or Material Subjects? A Conference on Continental Metaphysics' International Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee, March 27-28th, 2010

Materialising the Symptom : Lacan and the 'Sinthome' at 'The Symptom in Theory' International Symposium, Cardiff University, 8th September 2009

The Underground Current of the Idea : Althusser, Lacan, Badiou at ‘21st Century Idealism’ International Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee, April 1-2 2011

Jacques Lacan and French Philosophy of Science
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, 7th January 2012

Invited Conference Contributions
Respondent at 'Form and Formalism' Workshop, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, 29-30th November 2010

Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Research Seminar Series, University of Kingston, 27th January 2011: Psychoanalytic Structuralism and the Cahiers pour l’Analyse

Bachelard, Lacan and the Impurity of Formalization, Department of Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, November 15th 2011

Deleuze, Canguilhem, and the Problem of Life
Inter-Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory
June 2012

Awards, scholarships and positions currently held
Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis, awarded 2011-2012
Fully funded PhD Scholarship with teaching and administrative responsibilities, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University (awarded 2008-2011)

Senior and Research Scholar, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (elected 2005)

Domestic Research Scholar, University of Cambridge (elected 2005)

‘Exhibition’ Examination Prize (for Part 2a examinations in Social Anthropology undertook as part of the Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos), Trinity College, University of Cambridge 2004

Winner of the 2005 University of Cambridge Social Anthropology Society Essay Prize

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Current Position

Two year Andrew Mellon post-doctoral fellowship in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis, awarded 2011-2013

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