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Dr Cindy Lee Zeiher

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Department: School of Language, Social and Political Sciences ; Sociology and Anthropology

Email: cindy.zeiher@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3694351

Office: Elsie Locke Building 311

Languages: English, German

"Wo Es war, soll Ich werden" (Freud)
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Fields of Research

  • Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  • Critical Theory
  • Continental Philosophy
  • Social Movements and Political Theories
  • Feminist Theories
  • Subjectivities and Sexualities
  • Theories of Affect and Emotions
  • Film and Visual Culture
  • New Zealand Left Politics

Researcher Summary

My research interests and contributions focus on how the subject can be understood within contemporary social, ideological, political and cultural systems. I primarily write on two areas: the critical history and resurgence of leftist politics and social movements; and subjectivities and affect as theoretically informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis.

I have co-edited a collection with Professor Todd McGowan, 'Can Philosophy Love? Reflections and Encounters' (Rowman Littlefield International, November, 2017), which interrogates and exposes the role love plays in knowledge.

I have also co-authored a book with Professor Ed Pluth, 'On Silence: Holding the Voice Hostage' (Palgrave Lacan Series, 2019).

I am currently working on two projects:an edited collection on psychoanalysis and stupidity; and a sole-authored book on Vladimir Jankélévitch.

I supervise post-graduate thesis students in the areas of psychoanalysis as well as critical, political and feminist theories.

My editorial commitments are:

Co-founder and editor, along with Assoc. Prof. Mike Grimshaw for Continental Thought and Theory (CT&T): http://ctt.canterbury.ac.nz/

Advisory board member for Counterfutures: Leftist Thought in Aotearoa/ New Zealand: http://counterfutures.blogspot.co.nz

I am on the advisory board for '(Non)sufficiencies' (Punctuum Books), a monograph series inspired by critical engagement of French philosopher, François Laruelle.

I am a member of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Center for Lacanian Analysis (NZ) and the German Studies Association (Aust).

Currently I sit on the College of Arts Research Committee.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Philosophy: Continental Philosophy
  • Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy: Political Theory
  • Religious Studies and Theology: Theology
  • Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work, Criminology and Gender Studies: Feminist Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Methodology; Social Science; Sociology

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles
  • Zeiher C. (2020) Lacan’s Fifth and Unfinished Discourse: Capitalism’s Alchemist Dream. Filozofski Vestnik 41(1): 331-345.
  • Zeiher C. (2020) Lacan’s Love for Socrates. Filozofski Vestnik XL(1): 65-85.
  • Zeiher C. (2020) The Woman and her Name: Baxter, Véra Baxter. S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique 12.
  • Zeiher C. (2020) Trump, Our Favourite Jouissance. CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory 3(1) 13: 200-218. http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/1176.
  • Zeiher C. (2019) Why bother caring (about the fate of money)? Provocations (2): 39-51.
  • Zeiher C. (2018) The Conjecture of Sovereignty: New Anxieties for the Subject. Journal of Extreme Anthropology 2(2): 92-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/jea.6247.
  • Zeiher C. (2017) Unbehagen: A Gallantry with Excess. Palgrave Communictions 3 38: 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-017-0035-y.
  • Zeiher C. (2016) And What of The Left? Žižek's Refusal of the Current Leftist Parable Introduction to Special Issue of Žižek and the Left. International Journal of Žižek Studies 10(2): 1-7.
  • Zeiher C. (2016) Embracing Zizek's Unapologetic Profanity: Enjoying One's Unfreedom. Continental Thought and Theory 1(1).
  • Zeiher C. (2016) The subject and the act: A necessary folie à deux to think politics. Filozofski Vestnik 37(1): 81-99.
  • Zeiher C. (2016) The Subject and the Act: A Necessary Folie à Deux to Think Politics. Filozofski Vestnik International XXXVII(1): 81-99.
  • Zeiher C. and Banbury J. (2016) Mana and Ideological Integrity: Solidarity or Just a Flash in the Pan? Counterfutures 1(2): 113-142.
  • Lacey C. and Zeiher C. (2015) Falling in Love is a Piece of Cake: A Cinematic Logic of Love. Écranosphère 2: 14pp.
  • Zeiher C. (2012) Between the Subject and the Social: Signifying Images of Desire and Ideological Subjectivities. International Journal of Žižek Studies 6(2): 26.
Edited Volumes
  • Grimshaw M; Zeiher C (Ed.) (2019) (What does it mean to) Think the Novel? Continental Thought & Theory 2(3)342.
  • Grimshaw M; Zeiher C (Ed.) (2018) Robert Pfaller's Interpassivity. Continental Thought & Theory 2(1)http://ctt.canterbury.ac.nz/issues/vol-2-issue-1-june-2018-interpassivity/. 385.
  • Grimshaw M; Zeiher C (Ed.) (2018) Thinking Sex with Alenka Zupancic. Continetal Thought & Theory 2(2)162.
  • Grimshaw M; Zeiher C (Ed.) (2017) 150 years of Capital. Continetal Thought & Theory 1(4)1-763.
  • Grimshaw M; Zeiher C (Ed.) (2017) Debt & Value. Continental Thought & Theory 1(2)1-566.
  • Grimshaw M; Zeiher C (Ed.) (2017) What does it Mean to be Feminist Today? 1-761.
  • Grimshaw MP. and Zeiher C. (2017) Introduction: “Debt and Value: Illusions of Axiology and Coherence” https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/13093/Introduction. .
  • Zeiher C; McGowan T (Ed.) (2017) Can Philosophy Love? Encounters and Reflections. London: Rowman and Littlefield International. 336.
  • Grimshaw M. and Zeiher C. (2016) Baudrillard and Žižek: Short-circuiting the Parallax. International Journal of Zizek Studies 10(1) http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/issue/view/49. International Journal of Zizek Studies 10(1) http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/issue/view/49.
  • Grimshaw M; Zeiher C (Ed.) (2016) What does Intellectual Freedom Mean Today? Continental Thought & Theory 1(1)251.
  • Grimshaw MP. and Zeiher C. (2016) Continental Thought & Theory:A Journal of Intellectual freedom. Issue 1: What is Intellectual freedom today. (1 ed.) Christchurch: CT&T. 251.
  • Zeiher C (Ed.) (2016) Embracing Žižek’s Unapologetic Profanity: Enjoying One’s Unfreedom. Continental Thought and Theory 1(1)(1 ed.) University of Canterbury: 234-251.
Chapters
  • Zeiher C. (2022) Žižek and the Bartleby Paradox: I Would Prefer Not To? In Zalloua Z (Ed.), Understanding Žižek, Understanding ModernismBloomsbury.
  • Zeiher C. (2020) Hypothesising Love: Lacan and Plato’s Symposium. In Basu Thakur G; Dickstein J (Ed.), Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII on Transference: 77-88. London: Palgrave Macmillan. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32742-2.
  • Zeiher C. (2020) Love Thy Enemy: Environment(al) Politics. In Burnham C; Kingsbury P (Ed.), Lacan and the EnvironmentPalgrave. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67205-8.
  • Zeiher C. (2020) The Transmission of an End – Mourning the Loss of the Analyst. In Dickstein J; Basu Thakur G (Ed.), Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII on Transference: 279-294. London: Palgrave. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32742-2_23.
  • Zeiher C. (2019) Historical Memory and Ethnic Myths. In Ratuva S (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0242-8_7-1.
  • Zeiher C. (2019) White Noise of Desire. In Overell R; Nicholls B (Ed.), Post-truth and the Mediation of Reality: New Conjunctures: 39-55.Palgrave Macmillan. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25670-8_3.
  • Zeiher C. (2017) Struggle as Love Par Excellence: Zupančič avec Badiou. In Zeiher C; McGowan T (Ed.), Can Philosophy Love? Reflections and Encounters: 297-310. London: Rowman Littlefield International.
  • Zeiher C. (2014) How to Kill Your Mother: Desire, Heavenly Creatures and Žižek’s Return to Ideology. In Flisfeder M; Willis LP (Ed.), Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader: 149-160. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Zeiher C. (2014) How to kill your mother: Heavenly creatures, desire, and Žižek’s return to ideology. Zizek and Media Studies: A Reader: 149-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137361516_12.
  • Zeiher C. (2014) Other/big Other. In Butler R (Ed.), The Žižek Dictionary: 205-208. Durham: Acumen Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315656229.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Zeiher C. (2019) On the Jouissance of Refusal: Lacan avec Jankélévitch - Panel: ‘Separation as Renunciation’. Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts: LACKiii, 9-11 May 2019.
  • Zeiher C. (2018) Doing Things with Silence. Christchurch, New Zealand: New Society for Musicology Conference: 'Into the Unknown', 30 Nov-2 Dec 2018.
  • Zeiher C. (2018) Reversing Interpassive Environments: Neighbour as Social Gesture and Enemy as Social Duty. Vancouver, Canada: LaConference: Lacan and the Environment, 6-7 Apr 2018.
  • Zeiher C. (2018) The Jouissance of Unsayability. Sydney, Australia: Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, 19-23 Nov 2018.
  • Zeiher C. (2018) The Unsayability of the Sexual Non Rapport. Melbourne, Australia: Lacan Study Day - Lacan Circle of Melbourne, 19 May 2018.
  • Zeiher C. (2018) The White Noise of Desire: Film and the Subject of Love. Auckland, New Zealand: Centre for Lacanian Analysis Conference, 23-25 Feb 2018.
  • Zeiher C. (2018) What Does Science Do to the Subject? Ghent, Belgium: Lacan Écrits Conference, 21-22 Sep 2018.
  • Zeiher C. (2017) The Problematic Politics of Nostalgia and the Tenacity of the Neighbour. Colorado Springs: LACK II, 19-22 Oct 2017.
  • Zeiher C. (2016) Intellectual Activism: A Devotion to the Praxis of One's Discipline. Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand: Social Movements and Resistance III Conference, 1-3 Sep 2016.
  • Zeiher C. (2016) On Being Quiet: An Erotic Relation with Words. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA: Lack and Psychoanalysis, 3-5 Apr 2016.
  • Dickson A. and Zeiher C. (2015) How are we Harnessing Feminine Jouissance? Sydney, Australia: Reason Plus Enjoyment, 10-12 Jul 2015.
  • Kavka M., Lacey C. and Zeiher C. (2015) The Allure of Haunting: New Zealand and Film [NZ on Screen Panel]. Wellington, New Zealand: History of Emotions Conference, 3-5 Sep 2015.
  • Lacey C. and Zeiher C. (2015) The Role of Love in the Production of Knowledge. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: Relationality, 18-20 Nov 2015.
  • Zeiher C. (2015) Responding to Roland Boer's, In the Vale of Tears. Sydney, Australia: Historical Materialism, Australia, 17-18 Jul 2015.
  • Zeiher C. (2014) The Problem of Belief: Ideology, Capitalism and Desire. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ: Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ), 3-4 Dec 2014.
  • Zeiher C. (2014) The Question of Belief. University of Cincinnati, OH, USA: Zizek Studies Conference, 4-6 Apr 2014.
  • Zeiher C. (2013) Theorising Desire in the 21st Century. University of Western Sydney, Australia: Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, 3-6 Dec 2013.
  • Zeiher C. (2012) Between the Subject and the Social: Signifying Images of Desire and Possible Subjectivities. SUNY, Brockport, New York, USA: Zizek Studies Conference, 28-29 Apr 2012.
  • Zeiher C. (2011) The Aftershock of Heavenly Creatures: Trauma as Socio-Symbolic. Wellington, New Zealand: Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ), 7-9 Dec 2011.
  • Zeiher C. (2011) The Language of Desire: Film as a Methodological Tool for Understanding Social Worlds. John Moores University, Liverpool, UK: Film-Philosophy Conference, 6-8 Jul 2011.
Oral Presentations
  • Zeiher C. (2020) The Importance of Being Earnestly Stupid. Auckland: 23 Oct 2020.
  • Zeiher C. (2019) Lacan’s Fifth and Unfinished Discourse. Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana: Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU - Philosophical Module.
  • Zeiher C. (2019) On Refusal: Psychoanalysis, Negation and Politics. Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana: Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU Philosophical Module.
  • Zeiher C. (2019) Science as Worldview of Psychoanalysis? Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana: Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU - Philosophical Module.
  • Zeiher C. (2019) Surviving the Linguistic Turn: Love as Category of Psychoanalysis? Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana: Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU - Philosophical Module.
  • Zeiher C. (2019) The Case of Dora: Lacan's Critique of Freud. Paris: Special Invited Seminar at American University of Paris.
  • Zeiher C. (2017) Forgetting Technology. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne School for Continental Philosophy: Technology, Knowledge, Truth Symposium, 15 Dec 2017.
  • Zeiher C. (2017) White Noise of Desire. University of Otago, Dunedin: University of Otago, Media and Communications, Guest Seminar.
  • Zeiher C. (2016) The Cruel Trick of Love: The Best Offer. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ: Canterbury School for Continental Philosophy Seminar Series.
Theses / Dissertations
  • Zeiher C. (2014) The fantasy is the most real thing: exploring desire in the 21st Century: Zizek and ideology. PhD Thesis, Christchurch, New Zealand. University of Canterbury.
Discussion/Working Papers
  • Grace V. and Zeiher C. (2013) Lacan: Researching the Social [facilitated 2 day workshop]. .

Future Research

  • I am currently working on a sole authored book focusing on a reading of Vladimir Jankelevitch via Jacques Lacan. Additionally, I am working on a theorisation of Freud's case study, 'Dora'.

Key Methodologies

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Discourse analysis
  • Feminist analysis
  • Textual Analaysis
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