Lacan and the Nonhuman

PART I: DEFINITIONS AND CONTEXTS.- Chapter 1: “Bestiarum Vocabulum Lacaniensis: A Concise Outline of Psychoanalytic Zoology” by Dany Nobus (Brunel University London).- Chapter 2: “Man is not Entirely in Man” by Kiarina Kordela (Macalester University).- Chapter 3: “Freud, Lacan, and the Human Nonhumanity of Coitus Interruptus” by Jamieson Webster (Eugene Lang College and New York University).- Chapter 4: “‘L’extermination de tout symbolisme des cieux’: Reading the Lacanian Letter as Inhuman ‘Apparatus’ and its Implications for Ecological Thinking” by Kevin Andrew Spicer (University of St. Francis).- Chapter 5: “Affective Posthumanism” by Marie-Louise Angerer (University of Potsdam).- Chapter 6: “The Undead: Lacan and Vico, the Critical Link” by Donald Kunze (Penn State University).- Chapter 7: “The Sovereign Signifier: Agamben and the Nonhuman” by Paul Eisenstein (Otterbein University).- Chapter 8: “Lacan and the Mechanism of Full Speech” by Ed Pluth (California State University, Chino).- PART 2: APPLICATIONS.- Chapter 9: “Like an Animal: A Simile Instead of a Subject” by Todd McGowan (University of Vermont).- Chapter 10: “A horse—no worse? Phobia and the failure of human metaphors in psychoanalysis” by Celeste Pietrusza and Jess Dunn (Duquesne University).- Chapter 11: “Beckett’s ‘Marionette Theater’: Psychoanalysis, Ontological Violence and The Language of Desubjectification in Malloy and Malone Dies” by Amanda Duncan (Pacific University).- Chapter 12: “Do Electric Sheep Dream of Androids?” by Calum Neill (Edinburgh Napier University).- Chapter 13: “ASMR Mania, Trigger Politics, and the Anxiety of Digital Repletion” by Hugh Manon (Clark University).- Chapter 14: “For the Love of Nonhumanity: Transference and the Anxiety of Algorithmic Critique” by Jonathan Michael Dickstein (Independent Scholar).