John Forrester
Biographic Data
| ID | 280820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Forrester |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Forrester |
| SIGNATURE | FORRESTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2678-4689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘I Could have Worshiped the Abased and Mutilated Remnant of the Temple’
In this posthumously published article, originally drafted in response to a colloquium held in Rome in 2010 to discuss Freud's ‘Rome neurosis’, John Forrester elaborates a profound reflection on the dualities, ironies and sublimations in Freud's attempt to negotiate his competing commitments: to Rome and to Jerusalem; to Jewishness but also to post-Renaissance intellect; against Christianity, but for Western cultural transcendence. In particular …
Épilogue
Structured output methods and environmental issues
Participatory methods for researching human–environmental interactions seek detailed inputs on all manner of issues, but the outputs are often only understandable to the technically literate. On the other hand, participatory methods that involve the co-design of structured outputs (maps, models, games, stories, etc.) can be used to represent and integrate the knowledge and views of participants authentically and can be interpretable to both ‘scie…
Opening space for equity and justice in resilience
What is equitable resilience
Resilience has attracted criticism for its failure to address social vulnerability and to engage with issues of equity and power. Here, we ask: what is equitable resilience? Our focus is on what resilience does on the ground in relation to development, adaptation and disaster management, and on identifying critical issues for engaging with equity in resilience practice. Using techniques from systematic reviews, with variants of equitable resilien…
Bringing rights into resilience
Marginalisation and exclusion are expressed in social conflict and are determinative in distributing risk and resilience. This paper builds on recent literature that has adopted a human rights lens to explore how resilience practice can better account for issues of equity and power. Using the illustrative case of Timor-Leste, it presents an analysis of how human rights principles play out in the settings in which rights are given meaning. The app…
Foucault, Power-Knowledge and the Individual
Competing paradigms of flood management in the Scottish/English borderlands
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how flood management practitioners rationalise the emergence of sustainable flood management. Key to this analysis are differences rooted in assumptions over what flood management is and should do. Design/methodology/approach – The popularity of natural flood management offers a case with which to explore how a dominant framing persists and how individuals at the government-public interface negoti…
Science and Public Participation
Thomas Jefferson, quoted in Fischer's Citizens, Experts, and the Environment (2000) said that wherever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government. But, nowadays, who can claim to be well informed enough about that thing which we call science to govern it except scientists themselves? In 1959, Sir Charles Snow put forward the thesis in the Rede Lecture that there was what amounted to an opposition between literary …
Participatory Action Research approaches and methods
"Participatory Action Research approaches and methods: connecting people, participation and place." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 51(6), pp. 876–877
The Psychoanalytic Case
Science and Public Participation
Thomas Jefferson, quoted in Fischer's Citizens, Experts, and the Environment (2001), said that wherever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government. But, nowadays, who can claim to be well informed enough about science to govern it except the scientists themselves? In 1959, Sir Charles Snow put forward the thesis in the Rede Lecture that there was what amounted to an opposition between literary intellectualism at o…
Enlightenment Now
Research Article| August 01 2007 Enlightenment Now: Concluding Reflections on Knowledge and Belief Mary Baine Campbell; Mary Baine Campbell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lorraine Daston; Lorraine Daston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Arnold I. Davidson; Arnold I. Davidson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google John Forrester; John Forrester Search for other works by this…
On Kuhn's Case
Remembering and Forgetting Freud in Early Twentieth-Century Dreams
Argument The paper explores the use of Freud's methods of dream interpretation by four English writers of the early twentieth century: T. H. Pear, W. H. R. Rivers, Ernest Jones, and Alix Strachey. Each employed their own dreams in rather different ways: as part of an assessment of Freud's work as a psychological theory, as illustrative of the cogency of Freud's method and theories as part of the psychoanalytic process. Each adopted different appr…
Society and Nature
Jean Fernel's On the Hidden Causes of Things
De Abditis Rerum Causis
Freud in Cambridge
The lecture sketches a previously unacknowledged source of intense interest in psychoanalysis in Cambridge in the 1920s, amongst non‐medical scientists, some but not all of whom were loosely associated with Bloomsbury. Amongst them were Lionel Penrose (later founder of human genetics) and Frank Ramsey (mathematician and philosopher), whose pilgrimages to Vienna are followed. The lecture reflects on the implications of this episode for the place o…
The "Physiologia" of Jean Fernel (1567)
Jean Fernel, John M. Forrester, John Henry, The "Physiologia" of Jean Fernel (1567), Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 93, No. 1 (2003), pp. i-iii, v-xv, xvii-xviii, 1-601, 603-636
Roy Porter (1946-2002)
The Marvellous Network and the History of Enquiry into Its Function
1120 Morningside Drive, Edinburgh EH10 5NS, Scotland. E-mail: [email protected]
Obituaries
Obituaries Get access John Forrester John Forrester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, AUTUMN 2002, Pages 267–271, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/54.1.267 Published: 01 January 2002
Conservative Epistomology, Reductive Ethics, Far Too Narrow Politics
Dispatches from the Freud wars
In this challenging collection of essays, the noted historian and philosopher of science John Forrester delves into the disputes over Freud's dead body. With wit and erudition, he tackles questions central to our psychoanalytic century's ways of thinking and living, including the following: Can one speak of a morality of the psychoanalytic life? Are the lives of both analysts and patients doomed to repeat the incestuous patterns they uncover? Wha…
If p, then what? Thinking in cases
What is equitable resilience
Resilience has attracted criticism for its failure to address social vulnerability and to engage with issues of equity and power. Here, we ask: what is equitable resilience? Our focus is on what resilience does on the ground in relation to development, adaptation and disaster management, and on identifying critical issues for engaging with equity in resilience practice. Using techniques from systematic reviews, with variants of equitable resilien…
Bringing rights into resilience
Marginalisation and exclusion are expressed in social conflict and are determinative in distributing risk and resilience. This paper builds on recent literature that has adopted a human rights lens to explore how resilience practice can better account for issues of equity and power. Using the illustrative case of Timor-Leste, it presents an analysis of how human rights principles play out in the settings in which rights are given meaning. The app…
Opening space for equity and justice in resilience
On Kuhn's Case
Chemistry and the conservation of energy
Essay Review
Participatory Action Research approaches and methods
"Participatory Action Research approaches and methods: connecting people, participation and place." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 51(6), pp. 876–877
Conservative Epistomology, Reductive Ethics, Far Too Narrow Politics
In the Beginning was Repetition
In psychoanalysis, every beginning is a repetition. While such a seeming paradox is not at odds with speculations in cosmology and thermodynamics, it is central to the conception of retroactive causality distinctive to psychoanalysis. Through a series of autobiographical and clinical examples taken from Freud, it is argued that the symptom, transference and memory all depend on a return, a repetition, of a past scene which acquires its causal pow…
Enlightenment Now
Research Article| August 01 2007 Enlightenment Now: Concluding Reflections on Knowledge and Belief Mary Baine Campbell; Mary Baine Campbell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lorraine Daston; Lorraine Daston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Arnold I. Davidson; Arnold I. Davidson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google John Forrester; John Forrester Search for other works by this…
The "Physiologia" of Jean Fernel (1567)
Jean Fernel, John M. Forrester, John Henry, The "Physiologia" of Jean Fernel (1567), Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 93, No. 1 (2003), pp. i-iii, v-xv, xvii-xviii, 1-601, 603-636
A Cure With a Defect
The authors make available in this paper the text of a previously unpublished letter by Freud, probably addressed to the founder of British ecology and his former patient, Sir Arthur Tansley, F.R.S., dating from 1932, concerning the treatment and later life of 'Anna O.', the first psychoanalytic patient. They give the full text of Freud's letter as discovered, and offer a brief commentary on its significance as evidence of Freud's view or views o…
A nice type of the English scientist
A1 Cambridge University, UK
Chemistry and the conservation of energy
Essay Review
Psychoanalysis or Literature
PSYCHOANALYSIS OR LITERATURE? Get access JOHN FORRESTER JOHN FORRESTER CAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, April 1981, Pages 170–179, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXV.2.170 Published: 01 April 1981
Quebec's Unaccompanied Minors Programs
Southeast Asian refugees has been the reception and fostering of almost 500 young people b y Canadian families. Quebec in particular saw a considerable influx of these special cases through 1980 and 1981, and even though the flow has dwindled to a barely perceptible trickle in recent months (for a variety of causes), some youngsters do continue to be received and placed with families or individuals
Essay Review
On Dostoevsky's The Gambler
Who is in analysis with whom? Freud, Lacan, Derrida
The paper is concerned with the limits of psychoanalysis and the concept of the non-analytic, in the light of the work of Lacan and Derrida and the relation to Freud. The functions of rumour, gossip, third parties are discussed, so as to highlight structural features of the analytic situation; such that the analytic scene is always the other scene. The function of repetition that this necessarily supposes is examined, in the light of Derrida's th…
HardlyThe Foundations of Psychoanalysis
Psychiatry and the Cinema . Krin Gabbard , Glen O. Gabbard
In the Beginning was Repetition
In psychoanalysis, every beginning is a repetition. While such a seeming paradox is not at odds with speculations in cosmology and thermodynamics, it is central to the conception of retroactive causality distinctive to psychoanalysis. Through a series of autobiographical and clinical examples taken from Freud, it is argued that the symptom, transference and memory all depend on a return, a repetition, of a past scene which acquires its causal pow…
Freud's Women
If p, then what? Thinking in cases
Lay perspectives
Although involvement of the consumer is increasingly being advocated in health related research, it is not welcome universally. Furthermore, the underlying rationale is rarely made explicit. Policy makers, health care professionals, and researchers need to be clear about the benefits and ways of including lay perspectives and the criteria for evaluating these. Examples of lay involvement in setting research agendas,1 2 3 4 methodological debate,5…
Dispatches from the Freud wars
In this challenging collection of essays, the noted historian and philosopher of science John Forrester delves into the disputes over Freud's dead body. With wit and erudition, he tackles questions central to our psychoanalytic century's ways of thinking and living, including the following: Can one speak of a morality of the psychoanalytic life? Are the lives of both analysts and patients doomed to repeat the incestuous patterns they uncover? Wha…
Truth games
Lying on the couch, the patient must tell all. And yet, as the psychoanalyst well knows, the patient is endlessly unable and unwilling to speak the truth. This perversity at the heart of psychoanalysis, a focus on intimate truths even as the lines between truth and lies are being redrawn, is also at the centre of this book of essays by the historian of psychoanalysis John Forrester. Continuing the work begun in Dispatches from the Freud Wars, thi…
A Cure With a Defect
The authors make available in this paper the text of a previously unpublished letter by Freud, probably addressed to the founder of British ecology and his former patient, Sir Arthur Tansley, F.R.S., dating from 1932, concerning the treatment and later life of 'Anna O.', the first psychoanalytic patient. They give the full text of Freud's letter as discovered, and offer a brief commentary on its significance as evidence of Freud's view or views o…
A nice type of the English scientist
A1 Cambridge University, UK
Conservative Epistomology, Reductive Ethics, Far Too Narrow Politics
Roy Porter (1946-2002)
The Marvellous Network and the History of Enquiry into Its Function
1120 Morningside Drive, Edinburgh EH10 5NS, Scotland. E-mail: [email protected]
Obituaries
Obituaries Get access John Forrester John Forrester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, AUTUMN 2002, Pages 267–271, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/54.1.267 Published: 01 January 2002
The "Physiologia" of Jean Fernel (1567)
Jean Fernel, John M. Forrester, John Henry, The "Physiologia" of Jean Fernel (1567), Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 93, No. 1 (2003), pp. i-iii, v-xv, xvii-xviii, 1-601, 603-636
Freud in Cambridge
The lecture sketches a previously unacknowledged source of intense interest in psychoanalysis in Cambridge in the 1920s, amongst non‐medical scientists, some but not all of whom were loosely associated with Bloomsbury. Amongst them were Lionel Penrose (later founder of human genetics) and Frank Ramsey (mathematician and philosopher), whose pilgrimages to Vienna are followed. The lecture reflects on the implications of this episode for the place o…
Jean Fernel's On the Hidden Causes of Things
De Abditis Rerum Causis
Psychology (20 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Psychoanalysis (16 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (7 works)