Claudia Lapping
Biographic Data
| ID | 240461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Lapping |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Lapping |
| SIGNATURE | LAPPING C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1929-1832 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Overdetermination
The concept of overdetermination offers a way of understanding the radical contingency of the human subject, history, and politics. Initially theorized by Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), the overdetermination of the manifest content of the dream, produced when our mind is free of conscious control, offers insights into unconscious processes in waking life. Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser took …
Two for joy: Towards a better understanding of free associative methods as sites of transference in empirical research
Psychical contexts of subjectivity and performative practices of remuneration: Teaching assistants’ narratives of work
A range of sociological work has theorized neoliberal regulative regimes, suggesting the contradictions contained in the enactment of policy and foregrounding the painful effects of these processes on subjectivities produced within performative school cultures. This paper contributes to this body of work by tracing the movement of desire in teaching assistants’ subjective relations to workplace practices of remuneration. We do this through an ana…
The explosion of real time and the structural conditions of temporality in a society of control: Durations and Urgencies of Academic Research
In the context of ongoing debates about the distinctive temporalities associated with contemporary regulative regimes, this paper explores the interpretive trajectories initiated in contrasting conceptualisations of the politics of time. This exploration is developed through analysis of interview data from a study of unconscious relations in academic practice. Section one uses one moment of data to contrast phenomenological, Deleuzian and Lacania…
Reflexivity and Fantasy: Surprising Encounters From Interpretation to Interruption
This article sets out two psychoanalytically informed conceptions of fantasy as a resource for reflexivity in research. First is the fantasy as a defensive structure that distorts our perception of reality, and the use of the researcher's affective responses as an interpretive tool. Second is the fantasy as a signifying structure that constitutes the subject's engagement in reality, foregrounding unconscious symbolic associations. These approache…
Benign violence: Education in and beyond the age of reason
Reviewed by Joanna Williams, Heather Mendick, and Claudia LappingIn Benign Violence, Education In and Beyond the Age of Reason, Ansgar Allen confronts readers with a disturbing history of schooling
Institutional Accountability and Intellectual Authority: Unconscious Fantasies and Fragile Identifications in Contemporary Academic Practice
Different epistemological stances constitute different pictures of the world. This is a mundane truism but also a useful starting point for my attempt to construct one particular picture of academic practice in higher education. My picture of higher education explores instances from interviews with academics, to suggest a way of seeing what we might think of as an unconscious or an ‘other side’ of higher education institutions. This unconscious, …
Institutional Accountability and Intellectual Authority
Which subject, whose desire? The constitution of subjectivity and the articulation of desire in the practice of research
Recontextualising ‘Play’ in Early Years Pedagogy: Competence, Performance and Excess in Policy and Practice
This paper traces the way discourses within early years policy and practice impose meanings onto the signifier ‘play’. Drawing on Bernstein's conceptualisation of recontextualising strategies, we explore how these meanings regulate troubling excesses in children's ‘play’. The analysis foregrounds an underlying question about the hold the signifier ‘play’ maintains within discourses that appear antithetical to traditional understandings of ‘play’
Psychoanalysis in Social Research: Shifting theories and reframing concepts
Introduction: Reframing Psychoanalytic Concepts, or Bricolage Decomposed 1. Melancholia: Lost Objects of National, Ethnic, Classed, Gendered and Sexual Identities 2. Overdetermination: The Conceptualization of Dreams and Discourse 3. Textures of Resistance: 'Discourse' and 'Psyche' and 'The Compulsion to Repeat' 4. Signifying Chains in Academic Practice: The Appearance and Disappearance of Affect, Politics and Methodology 5. From Psychic Defenses…
The ethics of interpretation: The Signifying Chain From Field to Analysis
This paper attempts to describe the relationship between the embodied practice of fieldwork and the written articulation of this experience. Starting from Valerie Hey's conceptualisation of 'rapport' as form of 'intersubjective synergy', a moment of recognition of similarity within difference ? similar in structure to Laclau and Moufffe's conceptualization of hegemony ? the paper explores how we can understand these moments of recognition as posi…
Interpreting 'Resistance' Sociologically: A Reflection on the Recontextualization of Psychoanalytic Concepts into Sociological Analysis
This article explores the contextual, methodological and theoretical implications of using psychoanalytic concepts within sociological analysis. Through the interpretation of an interaction between myself and a research participant as an instance of 'resistance', I argue that it is possible to recontextualize psychoanalytic concepts, but that this recontextualization involves an inevitable transformation in meaning. In addition, I suggest that an…
Recodifications of academic positions and reiterations of desire: Change but Continuity in Gendered Subjectivities
This article argues that the analysis of changes in the social position of women needs to distinguish between levels of social practice and psychic subjectification. The argument draws on Lacan's conception of the relationship between subjectivity, desire and sexual difference to describe gendered aspects of subjectivity embedded within the (re)organisation of social fields. The data is taken from a comparative case study of undergraduate modules…
Antagonism and overdetermination: The production of student positions in contrasting undergraduate disciplines and institutions in the United Kingdom
Based on data drawn from an empirical research project in four UK universities, this article presents a picture of student positions in undergraduate classes as a product of the relationship between the discursive fields of discipline, institution and gender. It begins by providing a description of some contrasting features of academic disciplines, and then identifies ways in which these features conflict with features of other discursive fields,…
Psychical contexts of subjectivity and performative practices of remuneration: Teaching assistants’ narratives of work
A range of sociological work has theorized neoliberal regulative regimes, suggesting the contradictions contained in the enactment of policy and foregrounding the painful effects of these processes on subjectivities produced within performative school cultures. This paper contributes to this body of work by tracing the movement of desire in teaching assistants’ subjective relations to workplace practices of remuneration. We do this through an ana…
Reflexivity and Fantasy: Surprising Encounters From Interpretation to Interruption
This article sets out two psychoanalytically informed conceptions of fantasy as a resource for reflexivity in research. First is the fantasy as a defensive structure that distorts our perception of reality, and the use of the researcher's affective responses as an interpretive tool. Second is the fantasy as a signifying structure that constitutes the subject's engagement in reality, foregrounding unconscious symbolic associations. These approache…
Which subject, whose desire? The constitution of subjectivity and the articulation of desire in the practice of research
Interpreting 'Resistance' Sociologically: A Reflection on the Recontextualization of Psychoanalytic Concepts into Sociological Analysis
This article explores the contextual, methodological and theoretical implications of using psychoanalytic concepts within sociological analysis. Through the interpretation of an interaction between myself and a research participant as an instance of 'resistance', I argue that it is possible to recontextualize psychoanalytic concepts, but that this recontextualization involves an inevitable transformation in meaning. In addition, I suggest that an…
Antagonism and overdetermination: The production of student positions in contrasting undergraduate disciplines and institutions in the United Kingdom
Based on data drawn from an empirical research project in four UK universities, this article presents a picture of student positions in undergraduate classes as a product of the relationship between the discursive fields of discipline, institution and gender. It begins by providing a description of some contrasting features of academic disciplines, and then identifies ways in which these features conflict with features of other discursive fields,…
The explosion of real time and the structural conditions of temporality in a society of control: Durations and Urgencies of Academic Research
In the context of ongoing debates about the distinctive temporalities associated with contemporary regulative regimes, this paper explores the interpretive trajectories initiated in contrasting conceptualisations of the politics of time. This exploration is developed through analysis of interview data from a study of unconscious relations in academic practice. Section one uses one moment of data to contrast phenomenological, Deleuzian and Lacania…
Two for joy: Towards a better understanding of free associative methods as sites of transference in empirical research
Recontextualising ‘Play’ in Early Years Pedagogy: Competence, Performance and Excess in Policy and Practice
This paper traces the way discourses within early years policy and practice impose meanings onto the signifier ‘play’. Drawing on Bernstein's conceptualisation of recontextualising strategies, we explore how these meanings regulate troubling excesses in children's ‘play’. The analysis foregrounds an underlying question about the hold the signifier ‘play’ maintains within discourses that appear antithetical to traditional understandings of ‘play’
Recodifications of academic positions and reiterations of desire: Change but Continuity in Gendered Subjectivities
This article argues that the analysis of changes in the social position of women needs to distinguish between levels of social practice and psychic subjectification. The argument draws on Lacan's conception of the relationship between subjectivity, desire and sexual difference to describe gendered aspects of subjectivity embedded within the (re)organisation of social fields. The data is taken from a comparative case study of undergraduate modules…
The ethics of interpretation: The Signifying Chain From Field to Analysis
This paper attempts to describe the relationship between the embodied practice of fieldwork and the written articulation of this experience. Starting from Valerie Hey's conceptualisation of 'rapport' as form of 'intersubjective synergy', a moment of recognition of similarity within difference ? similar in structure to Laclau and Moufffe's conceptualization of hegemony ? the paper explores how we can understand these moments of recognition as posi…
Antagonism and overdetermination: The production of student positions in contrasting undergraduate disciplines and institutions in the United Kingdom
Based on data drawn from an empirical research project in four UK universities, this article presents a picture of student positions in undergraduate classes as a product of the relationship between the discursive fields of discipline, institution and gender. It begins by providing a description of some contrasting features of academic disciplines, and then identifies ways in which these features conflict with features of other discursive fields,…
Recodifications of academic positions and reiterations of desire: Change but Continuity in Gendered Subjectivities
This article argues that the analysis of changes in the social position of women needs to distinguish between levels of social practice and psychic subjectification. The argument draws on Lacan's conception of the relationship between subjectivity, desire and sexual difference to describe gendered aspects of subjectivity embedded within the (re)organisation of social fields. The data is taken from a comparative case study of undergraduate modules…
Interpreting 'Resistance' Sociologically: A Reflection on the Recontextualization of Psychoanalytic Concepts into Sociological Analysis
This article explores the contextual, methodological and theoretical implications of using psychoanalytic concepts within sociological analysis. Through the interpretation of an interaction between myself and a research participant as an instance of 'resistance', I argue that it is possible to recontextualize psychoanalytic concepts, but that this recontextualization involves an inevitable transformation in meaning. In addition, I suggest that an…
The ethics of interpretation: The Signifying Chain From Field to Analysis
This paper attempts to describe the relationship between the embodied practice of fieldwork and the written articulation of this experience. Starting from Valerie Hey's conceptualisation of 'rapport' as form of 'intersubjective synergy', a moment of recognition of similarity within difference ? similar in structure to Laclau and Moufffe's conceptualization of hegemony ? the paper explores how we can understand these moments of recognition as posi…
Psychoanalysis in Social Research: Shifting theories and reframing concepts
Introduction: Reframing Psychoanalytic Concepts, or Bricolage Decomposed 1. Melancholia: Lost Objects of National, Ethnic, Classed, Gendered and Sexual Identities 2. Overdetermination: The Conceptualization of Dreams and Discourse 3. Textures of Resistance: 'Discourse' and 'Psyche' and 'The Compulsion to Repeat' 4. Signifying Chains in Academic Practice: The Appearance and Disappearance of Affect, Politics and Methodology 5. From Psychic Defenses…
Recontextualising ‘Play’ in Early Years Pedagogy: Competence, Performance and Excess in Policy and Practice
This paper traces the way discourses within early years policy and practice impose meanings onto the signifier ‘play’. Drawing on Bernstein's conceptualisation of recontextualising strategies, we explore how these meanings regulate troubling excesses in children's ‘play’. The analysis foregrounds an underlying question about the hold the signifier ‘play’ maintains within discourses that appear antithetical to traditional understandings of ‘play’
Institutional Accountability and Intellectual Authority: Unconscious Fantasies and Fragile Identifications in Contemporary Academic Practice
Different epistemological stances constitute different pictures of the world. This is a mundane truism but also a useful starting point for my attempt to construct one particular picture of academic practice in higher education. My picture of higher education explores instances from interviews with academics, to suggest a way of seeing what we might think of as an unconscious or an ‘other side’ of higher education institutions. This unconscious, …
Institutional Accountability and Intellectual Authority
Which subject, whose desire? The constitution of subjectivity and the articulation of desire in the practice of research
Benign violence: Education in and beyond the age of reason
Reviewed by Joanna Williams, Heather Mendick, and Claudia LappingIn Benign Violence, Education In and Beyond the Age of Reason, Ansgar Allen confronts readers with a disturbing history of schooling
Reflexivity and Fantasy: Surprising Encounters From Interpretation to Interruption
This article sets out two psychoanalytically informed conceptions of fantasy as a resource for reflexivity in research. First is the fantasy as a defensive structure that distorts our perception of reality, and the use of the researcher's affective responses as an interpretive tool. Second is the fantasy as a signifying structure that constitutes the subject's engagement in reality, foregrounding unconscious symbolic associations. These approache…
The explosion of real time and the structural conditions of temporality in a society of control: Durations and Urgencies of Academic Research
In the context of ongoing debates about the distinctive temporalities associated with contemporary regulative regimes, this paper explores the interpretive trajectories initiated in contrasting conceptualisations of the politics of time. This exploration is developed through analysis of interview data from a study of unconscious relations in academic practice. Section one uses one moment of data to contrast phenomenological, Deleuzian and Lacania…
Psychical contexts of subjectivity and performative practices of remuneration: Teaching assistants’ narratives of work
A range of sociological work has theorized neoliberal regulative regimes, suggesting the contradictions contained in the enactment of policy and foregrounding the painful effects of these processes on subjectivities produced within performative school cultures. This paper contributes to this body of work by tracing the movement of desire in teaching assistants’ subjective relations to workplace practices of remuneration. We do this through an ana…
Two for joy: Towards a better understanding of free associative methods as sites of transference in empirical research
Overdetermination
The concept of overdetermination offers a way of understanding the radical contingency of the human subject, history, and politics. Initially theorized by Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), the overdetermination of the manifest content of the dream, produced when our mind is free of conscious control, offers insights into unconscious processes in waking life. Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser took …
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