Refashioning Jouissance/Enjoyment for the Age of the Imaginary

Juliet Flower MacCannell earned her Ph.D in Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She writes on literature, art, philosophy and psychoanalysis and is the author of over 90 articles and several books including The Hysteric's Guide to the Future of the Female Subject (2000), Figuring Lacan: Criticism & The Cultural Unconscious (1986 & 2014). She edited The 'Other' Perspective in Gender and Culture (1990), co-edited Thinking Bodies (1994) and Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A critical Dictionary (1992). Dr. MacCannell was named Outstanding Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English at UC Irvine in 2015 and is currently co-chair of the California Psychoanalytic Circle, editing the Journal of Culture and the Unconscious. She has taught at UC Berkeley, Stanford, the San Francisco Lacan School and the Nordic Summer University (sponsored by governments of all five nordic nations). She will teach "The Transformations of Psychoanalysis" in Copenhagen this August, 2016.