Speaker: Nadia Bou Ali
Nadia Bou Ali is Associate Professor and Director of the Civilization Studies Program at the American University of Beirut. She is the author of Hall of Mirrors: Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and co-editor (with Rohit Goel) of Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, Politics (Bloomsbury 2018), and co-editor with Surti Singh o of Extimacy: Encounters Between Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (forthcoming with Northwestern University Press). She has a private psychoanalytic practice in Beirut and is a member of the Lacan School, Bay Area, San Francisco.
Reading: Please read Chapters 3-4 (pp. 63-124) in Psychoanalysis: Topological Perspectives, New Conceptions of Geometry and Space in Freud and Lacan, ed. Michael Friedman, Samo Tomšič, Transcript Publishing, 2017.