Eve Watson, Burns Scholar Spring 2025: “Giving Voice to Irish Culture and Psyche: Psychoanalytic, Ci

Name: Eve Watson, Burns Scholar Spring 2025: “Giving Voice to Irish Culture and Psyche: Psychoanalytic, Ci
Start: 2025-11-12T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-12T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Burns Library

Schedule

Wed Nov 12 2025 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Burns Library | Ann Arbor, MI

Eve Watson (PhD, MICP) is involved in psychoanalytic practice, training, education, and research in Dublin, Ireland. She is a co-director of a busy Dublin city centre clinic, and is a psychoanalytic practitioner and clinical supervisor. She has published dozens of essays on psychoanalysis, sexuality, film, culture, and literature. She lectures on various programs in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and health and oversees a variety of research projects at graduate and undergraduate levels. Her co-edited books are Freud's Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy (2025, Routledge), Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (2024, Routledge), Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (2017, Punctum), and in 2026 a forthcoming collection on James Joyce's writing and her own authored book on psychoanalysis and film. She is the academic director of the Freud Lacan Institute (FLi), and was the Editor of Lacunae, the International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis from 2016-2024. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of Lacunae, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and the European Journal of Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy. In 2022, she was the Erik Erikson Scholar-in-Residence at the Austen Riggs Centre in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She is the Burns Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College in the Fall of 2025.
For further background on Professor Watson and her Burns Visiting Scholar residency, please visit the Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies web page.
Burns Library will host a complimentary beer, wine, hors d'oeuvres reception beginning at 5:00pm, with Prof. Watson's lecture to follow at 6:00pm. All are welcome.