KATE BRIGGS, PHD.

 

Dept of Psychology, UWG, Melson Hall

1601 Maple St,

Carrollton, GA 30118

kbriggs@westga.edu

Wk: 678 8390602

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1997-2003         PHD in Psychoanalytic Studies, Deakin University, Australia.

 

1991-1995         Post Graduate Diploma, The University of Melbourne (Part time).

Thesis: “Masochism and the chiasmus of the biological ideal: An essay on the death drive.”

 

1981-1985         BA, The University of Melbourne.

Majoring in Social Theory, Department of History and Philosophy of

Science. Other subjects: Fine Arts, History, Politics, Philosophy.

 

 

 

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT

 

2006-                  Temporary Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of West Geogia.

 

2006                   Clinical Specialist, SouthWest Counseling Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico

 

2004 2006         College Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, New Mexico State University.

 

2003-2004         Maternity leave.

 

2002-2003          Assistant Director and 101 Coordinator, Writing Program, Department of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

 

2001-2002         Assistant Instructor, the Writing Program, Department of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

 

1993-7               Consultant, lecturer and trainer, Human Services Computing, a software development company specializing in  case management information systems used to collect statistical data within the social welfare field.

 

 

LICENCE

 

Licensed Mental Health Counselor, State of New Mexico, Licence # 0091461

 

PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING

 

1999-2004         Psychoanalyst, working under supervision.

 

1992-8               Analysis with Carmela Levy-Stokes, President of the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis in the Freudian Field, 1993-2001.

 

1990-8               Seminars, workshops, symposium and classes of the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis in the Freudian Field.

 

1997-8               Research Seminar in the Psychoanalytic Stream, Royal Park. (A seminar run jointly between the Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, the Psychoanalytic Studies Program, Deakin University and Swinburne University).

 

1999-                 Seminars organized by Après Coup and New York FLaG.

 

 

 

SCHOLARSHIPS and RESEARCH POSITIONS

 

1998-2000         Associate Researcher, Institute for Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, USA.

 

1997-2001          Australian Postgraduate Award with Stipend.

 

1991-2                HECS Exemption, Australian Government Award Fee Waiver.

 

 

 

COMMITTEES

 

2005            Gender Equity Sub-Committee, Commission of the Status of Women, New Mexico State University.

 

2000-         Board member of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups.

 

 

 

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

 

The Fifth Annual Conference of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, Fundamental Fantasies: Écrits and After, at Dusquesne University, Pittsburgh. May 16-18, 2003. Co-organized with Bruce Fink and Dan Collins.

 

The Third Annual Conference of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, on Obsessional Neurosis, The University at Albany, 4-6 May 2001. Co-organized with Charles Shepherdson and Dan Collins. This was the first clinical conference from a Lacanian orientation in the United States and involved twenty speakers from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Poland and the USA.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

2007 “Symptom formation, from Klein to Lacan” (Forthcoming)

 

2005           “Of love and modernity: The lament of Joshua Smith,” Radical Revisionism. Edited Rex Butler. Brisbane, Australia: The Institute of Modern Art. Pp.  264-271.

 

2001 “The work of sublimation love: Utilising absence,” Analysis 10:10-21.

 

2000 “From a softer silence: Readings of erasure.” Juan Davila. Love’s Progress. Melbourne: Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, 2000.

 

1999                “Transmission as unitive virtue, a complaint of conviction: Teresa

Brennan Reading Lacan,” Err 1, The Clinic, Fall 1999.

 

1998  “From the issue of what goes missing,” Aedon 5 (1): 129-151.

 

1995 “Joy Hirst. Site Index,”  Agenda. No. 44-45.

 

1991 Contraplex. Melbourne: The Australian Centre for Contemporary

Art, Melbourne, 1991.

 

1990 The Oedipus Variations. Sydney: The Australian Centre for Photography, 1990.

 

 

Joint Authorship:

 

2007 ‘Virginity’, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Sex, Love, and Culture. Volume 6: The Modern World/20th & 21st Centuries. Edited by James T. Sears. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (Forthcoming; co-authored with Chris Bell.)

 

1990 'Three possible endings. An interview with Yvonne Rainer', Photofile No. 30. Conducted jointly with Fiona Mcdonald.

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

1996 In the heart of absence. A eulogy of castration. Detail. A Writing Project Coordinated by Brenda Ludeman. July 10-July 21, Ist Floor, Melbourne.

(The exhibition was composed of four independently authored manuscripts of 10,000 words or more.)

 

 

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

 

· “A Poetics of Separation,” Plenary Panel, ‘What’s the Difference? Engaging our patients through Klieinan, Winnicotian, Lacanian and Relational Theories.’ APCS, October 2006.

 

· Case Presentation, New York Freud Lacan Analytic Group, Clinical Study Day, Oct 2005.

 

· “Exploring the Feminine. Gender, identity and sexuality,” launch of Women’s History Month, Women’s Studies Program, New Mexico State University. March 8, 2005.

 

· “Symptom formation, from Klein to Lacan.” Working with the Symptom, Sixth Annual Conference of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, Creighton University, Omaha. September 25, 2004.

 

· “The gift of absence: sublimation, feminine sexuation and faith,” State University of West Georgia, March 12, 2004.

 

· “Faith, anxiety, and the ethics of sexual difference,” American Psychological Association, August 2003. Symposium organized by Kareen R. Malone.

 

· “Anxiety as saving through faith. The role of the sinthome in mitigating the paralysis of emotion by affect.” Fundamental Fantasies: Écrits and After. Fifth Annual Conference of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, Duquense University, Pittsburgh. May 17, 2003.

 

· “Anxiety as saving through faith. The role of the sinthome in mitigating the paralysis of emotion by affect.” Emotions, The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Eighth Annual Convention on Psychoanalysis and Social Change, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. October 25, 2002.

 

· Respondent, Fourth Annual Conference of the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, Daemon College, Buffalo, June 1, 2002.

· “An obsessional act of erasure: Žižek on L’Origine du Monde.” Social Symptoms, The Seventh Annual Convention of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. November 2001.

· “Situating Seminar X.” Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, Buffalo. September 2001.

· “Reading Seminars X and XIV.” Après Coup, June 2001.

· “From Das Ding to the Sinthome: a question concerning sublimation in feminine sexuation.” Deakin University Psychoanalytic Seminar. June 2001.

· “The work of sublimation love: Utilizing absence.” Reading, Second Annual Conference of the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, Emory University, Atlanta. May 2000.

· Workshop, “An Introduction to the Names-of-the-Fathers.” Second Annual Conference of the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, Emory University, Atlanta. May 2000.

· “The work of sublimation love: Utilizing absence.” Social Symptoms, The Fifth Annual Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Columbia Teachers College, New York. November 1999.

· “Julia Kristeva’s other jouissance: An ethics of depression?” Feminine Sexuality, First Annual Conference of the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, Boston College, Boston. May 1999.

· “Subject before God: Feminine anxiety and the body in jouissance.” Oedipus Today, The Fourth Annual Conference of the Association for the  Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Emory University, Atlanta. November 1998.

· “Emigrants from the sphere of the universal: A question concerning faith, feminine anxiety and the body in jouissance.” Workshop on Anxiety, Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis in the Freudian Field. November 1998.

· “Thinking through sacrifice: Psychoanalytic feminism, on the faultline of the father and the question of the Real.” Research Seminar in the Psychoanalytic Stream, Royal Park. May 1998.

· The Annual History and Philosophy of Science and Social Theory Conference, The University of Melbourne. March 1998.

· The Social Theory Thesis Workshop, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne. December 1997.

· The Annual History and Philosophy of Science and Social Theory Conference, The University of Melbourne. March 1997.

 

TEACHING

 

Fall 2006        PSYC 3150 Abnormal Psychology, PSYC 6287 Practicum.

Spring 2006 WS 355/455 Feminist Qualitative Methods

Fall 2005 WS 202, Representing Women; WS471/571/325 Feminist Theory/Topics in Feminist Philosophy.

Summer 2005 WS 454/554, Women Crossing Borders.

Spring 2005 WS 202, Representing Women; WS 465 Sex, gender and the body across the disciplines; WS 455/555 Feminist Inquiries.

Fall 2004 WS 202, Representing Women; WS 471/571 Feminist Theory.

Spring 2003 355:101, Expository Writing (2 sections).

Fall 2002 355:101, Expository Writing.

Spring 2002 355:101, Expository Writing; 355:312, Writing for Biology and the Natural Sciences; 355:201, Research in the Disciples, The Family (2 sections).

Fall 2001 355:101, Expository Writing (3 sections); 355:301, Women and Autobiography.

Spring 2001 355:101, Expository Writing (2 sections).

May 2000 Workshop, “An Introduction to the Names-of-the-Fathers.” Second Annual Conference of the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, Emory University, Atlanta.