Lacan and the Nonhuman

1. Chicken Knowledge: Or, What Does the Nonhuman Want?
Gautam Basu Thakur, Jonathan Michael Dickstein

Part I. Definitions and Contexts

2. Toward a Less-Than-Human Psychoanalysis: Coitus Interruptus and the Object
Jamieson Webster

3. A Horse: No Worse? Phobia and the Failure of Human Metaphors in Psychoanalysis
Celeste Pietrusza, Jess Dunn

4. The Human Not in the Human
A. Kiarina Kordela

5.
L’extermination de tout Symbolisme des Cieux: Reading the Lacanian Letter as Inhuman ‘Apparatus’ and Its Implications for Ecological Thinking
Kevin Andrew Spicer

6. Lacanian Anti-Humanism and Freedom
Ed Pluth

7. The Sovereign Signifier: Agamben and the Nonhuman
Paul Eisenstein

Part II. Applications

8. Triplicity in Spencer-Brown, Lacan, and Poe
Don Kunze

9. Like an Animal: A Simile Instead of a Subject
Todd McGowan

10. Beckett’s ‘Marionette Theater’: Psychoanalysis, Ontological Violence, and the Language of Desubjectification in Stories and The Unnamable

Amanda Duncan

11. Do Electric Sheep Dream of Androids?: On the Place of Fantasy in Consideration of the Nonhuman
Calum Neill

12. ASMR Mania, Trigger-Chasing, and the Anxiety of Digital Repletion
Hugh S. Manon

13. For the Love of Nonhumanity: Anxiety, the Phallus, Transference, and Algorithmic Criticism
Jonathan Michael Dickstein

Keywords: Psychology, Self and Identity, Psychoanalysis, Ontology, Existentialism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences