Memorial University of Newfoundland
Graduate Student, Philosophy
S. J. McGrath
About
My interests largely fit under the banner of "the metaphysics of psychoanalysis," including the historical precedents (Schelling, Schopenhauer, von Hartmann), the psychoanalytic theorists themselves (Freud, Jung, Lacan), and the metaphysical offspring of this lineage (Deleuze, Badiou, Zizek, etc). Besides psychoanalysis, my philosophical roots can be located in the systems of vitalists (Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson). More broadly, I'm is also interested in speculative realism.
My current research involves an attempt to understand the relation between metaphysical vitalism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the question of Lacanian ontology, and how it relates to the systems of Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek. I am also currently attempting to build something of a Freudian materialist metaphysics.
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