Carol Owens

Dr Carol Owens is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in North Dublin. She has lectured on psychoanalysis at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, and Independent Colleges Dublin. A registered practitioner member of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland, she is also the founder of the Dublin Lacan Study Group. Her work has been published in a number of journals and books.

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Studying Lacan’s Seminar VI: Dream, Symptom, and the Collapse of Subjectivity

by Olga Cox Cameron, Carol Owens

The second volume in the Studying Lacan's Seminars series, this book is the first comprehensive study of Lacan's Seminar VI: Desire and its Interpretation. A natural companion to Bruce Fink's recent... (more)

Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child

Edited by Carol Owens, Stephanie Farrelly Quinn

Lacan did not say or write very much about the psychoanalysis of children. There is no doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children in his work. Instead, his 1956-1957 seminar on ‘the object relation’... (more)

Studying Lacan's Seminars IV and V: From Lack to Desire

Edited by Carol Owens, Nadezhda Almqvist

This is the first collection of essays to offer a comprehensive analysis of, and reflection on, the major themes emergent in Jacques Lacan's seminars of 1955-56 and 1956-57: Seminar IV - the object... (more)

The Letter 33: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 2005

Edited by Carol Owens

Cormac Gallagher: Re-Englishing Encore; Pauline O'Callaghan: Courtly love to Courtney Love: Still no such thing as a sexual relationship?; Patricia McCarthy: A commentary on Lacan's hainamoration and... (more)

The Letter 34: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 2005

Edited by Carol Owens

Calum Neill: An idiotic act: On the non-example of Antigone; Helena Texier: Antigone goes beyond-the-beyond: From the my lady of the ideal to the malady of the Ideal; Kazushige Shingu: Freud, Lacan... (more)

The Letter 36: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 2006

Edited by Carol Owens

Spring 2006 issue. Cormac Gallagher: Lacan's Viator and the Time Traveller's Wife; Barry O'Donnell: Lacan's invention; Florencia F.C. Shanahan: Erring fathers; Patricia McCarthy: Psychoanalysis is... (more)

The Letter 37: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 2006

Edited by Carol Owens

Summer 2006 issue. Rolando Karothy: The writing of Joyce; Oscar Zentner: From the Lacan-Joyce correspondence; Colette Soler: Joyce's Nora; Andrew Lewis: The psychoanalytic case history; Stephen J.... (more)

The Letter 38: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Autumn 2006

Edited by Carol Owens

Cormac Gallagher: From Freud's mythology of sexuality to Lacan's formulae of sexuation; Helen Sheehan: Sigmund Freud: the time for understanding; Gerry Sullivan: Freud in the twenty-first century: a... (more)

Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch

by Stephanie Swales, Carol Owens

Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a... (more)

Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen: The Year the Cinemas Closed

Edited by Carol Owens, Sarah Meehan O'Callaghan

Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen examines the impact of cinema closures and the shift to small-screen consumption on our aesthetic and subjective desires during the Covid-19 pandemic from a... (more)

Studying Lacan's Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Edited by Carol Owens

Studying Lacan’s Seminar VII offers a contemporary, critically informed set of analyses of Lacan’s ethics seminar and astute reflections about what Lacan’s ethics offers to the field of... (more)

The Letter 30: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 2004

Edited by Carol Owens

Cormac Gallagher: Where was Jacques Lacan in 1971-72? Ou Pire and The Knowledge of the Psychoanalysts; Claude-Noële Pickman: Examining a clinic of the not-all; Barry O'Donnell: The Parmenides and the... (more)

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