

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: A Culture of Psychosis?
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Jun, 2025 at 10:00 am – Fri, 27 Jun, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for this in-person, one-day event on the notion of a culture of psychosis, featuring prominent Lacanian scholars and practitioners.
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In 1979, Christopher Lasch published his epoch-defining book The Culture of Narcissism. While there is no reason to suspect narcissism is in any way in decline, over 45 years after Lasch, we are most certainly in a different time. With the invention of social media and the decentralisation of information has come a disintegration of consensus on basic facts. Fake news, conspiracy theories and competing narratives all abound, leaving us considerably less in the way of any surety as to what is really going on. From a psychoanalytic perspective, these conditions might be thought to be ripe for a culture of psychosis. This one-day event will pick up this question, exploring what it might mean to live in a time of psychosis, if this is the case or even if this is a helpful way of thinking about what is going on.

SPEAKERS

Leon S. Brenner is a psychoanalyst and a research fellow at the University of Potsdam, Institute for Philosophy, Germany. His publications include The Autistic Subject (Palgrave, 2020), Against Reality (Everyday Analysis, 2024) and the forthcoming Infinity: The Subject of Love in Lacan and Badiou (Palgrave, 2026).

Calum Neill is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Continental Philosophy at Edinburgh Napier University and host of Lacan in Scotland. His publications include Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity(Palgrave, 2014), Ethics and Psychology (Routledge, 2016) and Jacques Lacan: The Basics(Routledge, 2023) and ZakLakan (Pedio Books, 2025).

Stijn Vanheule is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Ghent University and a privately practicing psychoanalyst. His publications include The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective (Palgrave, 2011), Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited – From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation (Palgrave, 2017) and Why Psychosis is not so Crazy(Other Press, 2024).

Fabio Vighi is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University. His publications include: Emergency Capitalism: Financial Hubris, Economic Collapse, and Systemic Manipulation (Sublation Media, 2024); Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: a Philosophy of Immanence (Bloomsbury, 2023, co-edited with Riccardo Panattoni); and Unworkable: Delusions of an Imploding Civilization (SUNY Press, 2022).

This one-day event takes place Friday 27 June 2025 at 10am-4pm British Summer Time (BST) in Edinburgh, UK.

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Edinburgh
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Edinburgh Napier University Merchiston
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- **full address**: Edinburgh Napier University Merchiston, Cardtronics, Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH10 5DT, United Kingdom,Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 27 Jun, 2025 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Lacan in Scotland
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