Tracy Mcnulty
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy Mcnulty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcnulty |
| SIGNATURE | MCNULTY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-8294-1818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historical Mortality Dynamics on the Baja California Peninsula
Emancipation by Relay
This essay explores the transhistorical and intersubjective dimension of political acts. It focuses on the complex, contrapuntal relationship between the French and Haitian Revolutions as analyzed by C.L.R. James in The Black Jacobins, which I read alongside Freud's Moses and Monotheism. In exploring the transmission of monotheism from the pharaoh Akhenaton to the Egyptian Moses (and through him to the Jewish religion), and of the doctrine of ema…
Inviting Catastrophe
This essay approaches the problem of the act from the perspective of psychoanalysis, which teaches us that the fear of the act as catastrophic-and especially as a mortal threat to the social bond-is often synonymous with the repudiation of the unconscious itself, whether by the individual subject or by the collective. To understand how an act of the unconscious can be received as catastrophic, whether by the actor or by others, we first have to c…
The Traversal of the Fantasy as an Opening to Humanity
This essay examines the stakes of the traversal of the fantasy in the unfolding of an analysis, arguing that the aim of a psychoanalysis is to liberate the unconscious quest that traverses the analysand by giving expression to what has been censored in his or her body. Paradoxically, however, it claims that this censored quest is not only unique to the individual analysand but something that articulates that subject to humanity as a whole. While …
Douglas Finn, Life in the Spirit
Introductory Note
The Drive, the Untreatable Quest of Desire
From the moment Freud first came up against repetition and the resistance of the symptom in his clinical practice and was thus forced to acknowledge a beyond of the pleasure principle that acts within the subject, the unconscious could no longer be conceived as a site of representations that are repressed because they are forbidden or inadmissible in the cultural or social sphere. This essay explores the manifestations and the consequences of thi…
Unbound
As a drive to the inorganic, the death drive is fundamentally opposed to sensuality and, specifically, to pleasure and pain. This is why Gilles Deleuze understands Freud's account of the death drive as the "beyond of the pleasure principle" not in terms of the transgression of a boundary or limit (going beyond pleasure into something painful or traumatic), but rather as a foray into speculative philosophy, an attempt to identify the transcendent …
Psychoanalysis and the Freudian Rupture
This metapsychological essay attempts to deduce the origin of the death drive from the author's clinical experience with analysands under transference. It proposes that Freud locates the stakes of speech, as a response to the Other, at the heart of the question of languager-but under the singular modality of the death drive. Attempting to reconstruct the experience of the first men, the author proposes that the death drive responded to the anxiet…
Wrestling with the Angel
Wrestling with the Angel
Demanding the Impossible
The question at the core of this essay is whether the subjective stance of one person can initiate broad change or inspire collective action by means other than the group psychology, not by appealing to a particular set of values or ideals or by cementing the group through identification or libidinal cathexes but by foregrounding the experience of the desiring subject. It takes as its point of departure Jacques Lacan's definition of anxiety as "t…
Nothing Works Anymore
Research Article| April 01 1997 Nothing Works Anymore! Willy Apollon; Willy Apollon willy apollon is a psychoanalyst and a philosopher. He is a member and director of research of Gifric (Groupe interdisciplinaire freudien de recherches et d'interventions cliniques) in Quebec and is consulting psychoanalyst and director of clinical supervision at the Center there for young psychotics. Among his books are Le vaudou: un espace pour les “voix” (Editi…
The Drive, the Untreatable Quest of Desire
From the moment Freud first came up against repetition and the resistance of the symptom in his clinical practice and was thus forced to acknowledge a beyond of the pleasure principle that acts within the subject, the unconscious could no longer be conceived as a site of representations that are repressed because they are forbidden or inadmissible in the cultural or social sphere. This essay explores the manifestations and the consequences of thi…
Introductory Note
Demanding the Impossible
The question at the core of this essay is whether the subjective stance of one person can initiate broad change or inspire collective action by means other than the group psychology, not by appealing to a particular set of values or ideals or by cementing the group through identification or libidinal cathexes but by foregrounding the experience of the desiring subject. It takes as its point of departure Jacques Lacan's definition of anxiety as "t…
The Traversal of the Fantasy as an Opening to Humanity
This essay examines the stakes of the traversal of the fantasy in the unfolding of an analysis, arguing that the aim of a psychoanalysis is to liberate the unconscious quest that traverses the analysand by giving expression to what has been censored in his or her body. Paradoxically, however, it claims that this censored quest is not only unique to the individual analysand but something that articulates that subject to humanity as a whole. While …
Unbound
As a drive to the inorganic, the death drive is fundamentally opposed to sensuality and, specifically, to pleasure and pain. This is why Gilles Deleuze understands Freud's account of the death drive as the "beyond of the pleasure principle" not in terms of the transgression of a boundary or limit (going beyond pleasure into something painful or traumatic), but rather as a foray into speculative philosophy, an attempt to identify the transcendent …
Psychoanalysis and the Freudian Rupture
This metapsychological essay attempts to deduce the origin of the death drive from the author's clinical experience with analysands under transference. It proposes that Freud locates the stakes of speech, as a response to the Other, at the heart of the question of languager-but under the singular modality of the death drive. Attempting to reconstruct the experience of the first men, the author proposes that the death drive responded to the anxiet…
Nothing Works Anymore
Research Article| April 01 1997 Nothing Works Anymore! Willy Apollon; Willy Apollon willy apollon is a psychoanalyst and a philosopher. He is a member and director of research of Gifric (Groupe interdisciplinaire freudien de recherches et d'interventions cliniques) in Quebec and is consulting psychoanalyst and director of clinical supervision at the Center there for young psychotics. Among his books are Le vaudou: un espace pour les “voix” (Editi…
Demanding the Impossible
The question at the core of this essay is whether the subjective stance of one person can initiate broad change or inspire collective action by means other than the group psychology, not by appealing to a particular set of values or ideals or by cementing the group through identification or libidinal cathexes but by foregrounding the experience of the desiring subject. It takes as its point of departure Jacques Lacan's definition of anxiety as "t…
Wrestling with the Angel
Wrestling with the Angel
Introductory Note
The Drive, the Untreatable Quest of Desire
From the moment Freud first came up against repetition and the resistance of the symptom in his clinical practice and was thus forced to acknowledge a beyond of the pleasure principle that acts within the subject, the unconscious could no longer be conceived as a site of representations that are repressed because they are forbidden or inadmissible in the cultural or social sphere. This essay explores the manifestations and the consequences of thi…
Unbound
As a drive to the inorganic, the death drive is fundamentally opposed to sensuality and, specifically, to pleasure and pain. This is why Gilles Deleuze understands Freud's account of the death drive as the "beyond of the pleasure principle" not in terms of the transgression of a boundary or limit (going beyond pleasure into something painful or traumatic), but rather as a foray into speculative philosophy, an attempt to identify the transcendent …
Psychoanalysis and the Freudian Rupture
This metapsychological essay attempts to deduce the origin of the death drive from the author's clinical experience with analysands under transference. It proposes that Freud locates the stakes of speech, as a response to the Other, at the heart of the question of languager-but under the singular modality of the death drive. Attempting to reconstruct the experience of the first men, the author proposes that the death drive responded to the anxiet…
Douglas Finn, Life in the Spirit
The Traversal of the Fantasy as an Opening to Humanity
This essay examines the stakes of the traversal of the fantasy in the unfolding of an analysis, arguing that the aim of a psychoanalysis is to liberate the unconscious quest that traverses the analysand by giving expression to what has been censored in his or her body. Paradoxically, however, it claims that this censored quest is not only unique to the individual analysand but something that articulates that subject to humanity as a whole. While …
Emancipation by Relay
This essay explores the transhistorical and intersubjective dimension of political acts. It focuses on the complex, contrapuntal relationship between the French and Haitian Revolutions as analyzed by C.L.R. James in The Black Jacobins, which I read alongside Freud's Moses and Monotheism. In exploring the transmission of monotheism from the pharaoh Akhenaton to the Egyptian Moses (and through him to the Jewish religion), and of the doctrine of ema…
Inviting Catastrophe
This essay approaches the problem of the act from the perspective of psychoanalysis, which teaches us that the fear of the act as catastrophic-and especially as a mortal threat to the social bond-is often synonymous with the repudiation of the unconscious itself, whether by the individual subject or by the collective. To understand how an act of the unconscious can be received as catastrophic, whether by the actor or by others, we first have to c…
Historical Mortality Dynamics on the Baja California Peninsula
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