Faculty
Joan Copjec
(SUNY) and (UB) Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture
Office: 409 Clemens
Phone number: (716) 645.2562
Email address: jkcopjec@buffalo.edu
Interests:
psychoanalysis; film theory; feminism; philosophy; art & architectural theory
Courses taught:
- Lacan; Women and Ontology; Deleuze and Cinema; Corbin and Islamic Philosophy; Cities and Cinema; Ethics; Affectivity and Political Radicalism; Rhetoric: Psychoanalysis and Politics; Identification and the Social Bond; Film Noir; Hitchcock; Abbas Kiarostami; Radical Evil; Melodrama; Iranian Cinema; Horrors! (The German Uncanny and the American Gothic); You’re No Don Juan: Female Desire and Disappointment; The History of People; the Destitution of the One (from Parmenides to Bersani); Cinema and Psychoanalysis; Aesthetics and Sublimation; The Subject (in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis)
Work in progress:
- "Kiarostami's Imaginal World: Shame, Hejab, Cinema"
Selected publications:
- El Compacto sexual (The Sexual Compact) was published by Paradiso editores (in coedition with 17, Instituto de Estudios Criticos, Mexico) in 2010. The book consists mostly of new essays, not yet published in English.
- El sexo y la euthanasia de la razon: ensayos sobre el amor y la diferencia (Paidos, 2006); in Spanish only
- Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (MIT 2002); translations in Japanese, Spanish; forthcoming in Korean, Turkish
- Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (MIT, 1994); translations in Japanese, German; forthcoming in Korean
- Giving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity, coed. with Michael Sorkin (Verso, 1999)
- Radical Evil, ed. (Verso, 1996)
- Supposing the Subject, ed. (Verso1996)
- Shades of Noir: A Reader, ed. (Verso, 1993)
- Jacques Lacan: Television/ A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, ed. (Norton, 1990)
- October: The First Decade, 1976-1986, ed. With Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson (MIT, 1987)
