Dr Eve Watson
Module Lecturer
(PhD, MSc Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, MICP, Reg.Pract APPI)

Eve Watson (PhD, MSc Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, MICP, Reg.Pract APPI) is involved in psychoanalytic practice, training, education, and research. She is co-director of a Dublin city-centre practice where she practices, and has published over thirty essays on psychoanalysis, sexuality, film, culture, and literature. Her co-edited books are Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (2017, Punctum), Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2024), and two collections are due in 2025 -Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy (Routledge, 2025) and James Joyce’s Writing and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2025). She is the academic director of the Freud Lacan institute (FLi), and was the Editor of Lacunae, the International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (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. Current research interests include gender and identity, contemporary culture, phenomenology, and inter-disciplinary intersections with psychotherapy.

Books:

  1. Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian

Psychoanalysts Revisit the Legacy, co-edited by Eve Watson and Helena Texier.

London: Routledge.

  1. Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice, co-edited by

Eve Watson and Dan Collins. London: Routledge.

  1. Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer

Theory, co-edited by Eve Watson and Noreen Giffney. Punctum Books

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Forthcoming. “Queer Ethics of the Psychoanalytic Drive.” Chapter in The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Gender, eds. P. Gherovici & M. Steinkoler. London: Routledge.
  1. “The Shame of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes.” Chapter in an Irish Studies collection, Psychoanalysis and Irish Shame, eds. S. Kennedy and J. Valente, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  1. “The Drive and Its Voice.” Chapter in Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice, eds. D. Collins & E. Watson. Routledge.
  1. “Lacan on the ‘Telly.’ Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen” co-written with Carol Owens. In Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen: The Year the Cinemas Closed, edited by C. Owens and S. Meehan O’Callaghan. London: Routledge.
  1. “The Role of Phantasy in Representations and Practices of Homosexuality, with Special Consideration of Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship and Edmund White’s Our Young Man.” Chapter in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans, eds. P. Gherovici & M. Steinkoler. London: Routledge.
  1. “Radical Temporalities of Trauma, Melancholia, and Disaster: Lacan, Blanchot, Sebald’s Austerlitz, von Trier’s Melancholia.” Chapter in Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s), eds. A. Veola and J. Datema (Routledge).
  1. “Groups and Communality: A Real Conundrum for the Social World.” chapter in Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression and Resistance: Lacanian Perspectives, eds. K. Hennessey and C. Vanderwees, Routledge.
  1. “Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Female Sexuality” in Reading the Ecrits—A Guide to Lacan’s Works. London: Routledge.
  1. “Making A Difference: On the Non-Rapport of Psychoanalysis and the Discourse of ‘Trans’” in Further Notes on the Child: Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children and Teenagers, London: Karnac Books.

 

REFEREED PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Forthcoming. “A Quiet Place: Where the Dead Don’t Die.” Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. Palgrave McMillan.
  1. Book Review “From an Other to the Other: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan.” The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. 94 (3), doi:

https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2527017.

  1. Book Review of The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass. Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychology.
  1. “Exile and Repetition: One Hundred Years of Women’s Reproduction in Ireland, 1922-2022.” Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.
  1. Book Review “Disorganisation and Sex,” by Jamieson Webster, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol 92 (4), doi:

https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2289319.

  1. “Thoughts on the Significance of Death, Disillusionment and Passivity in Dark Times.” In Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (JCFAR). See https://jcfar.org.uk/jcfar-bookshop/digital-editions/jcfar-issue-31-digital-edition/.
  1. “Some Reflections on Lacanian Psychoanalytic Praxis in Ireland.” In Lacunae, International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, No. 22 (June

2021).

  1. A Psychoanalytic Approach to Gender Variance in Children and Adolescents: Some Temporal and Ethical Considerations.” In The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. See doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.1975460.
  1. Gozlan, O., Osserman, J., Silber, L., Wallerstein, H., Watson E. & Wiggins T. (2021). “Transgender Children: From Controversy to Dialogue.” In The

Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2021.1975462.

  1. “A Psychoanalytic Journey of Time, Topology and Outsidership. In Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

See https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpsi20/39/6?nav=tocList.

  1. “A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Film Raw (2016), with Special Emphasis on the Capitalist Discourse.” Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

See https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-020-00166-5.

  1. “Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory: Towards an Ethics of Otherness.” In Journal of Studies in Gender and Society, USA. Special Issue dedicated to responses to Clinical Encounters in Sexuality (2017, Eds. E. Watson and N. Giffney).

See https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2019.1673978.

  1. “The Mythification of Memory: Freud, Lacan and Sebald’s Austerlitz,” in Psychoanalytiche Perspectieven, Belgium.
  1. “’Shining’ a Light on Psychosis and Triggers to Its Violent Expression,” in Psychoanalytische Perspectieven, Belgium, Vol. 33:3.
  1. “The Voice and the Analyst’s Ear,” in Lacunae, Journal of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland.
  1. “Some Considerations of Feminine Homosexuality,” in Lacunae, International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Vol. 2 (2).
  1. “Mermaids and Madelines: An Exploration of Woman as a ‘Symptom’ of Man (with Special Consideration of the Films Ondine and Vertigo)” in Lacunae,

International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Vol. 2 (1).

OCCASIONAL TALKS/LECTURES/MEDIA/PODCASTS/VIDEOS

 

PODCASTS

07/2024        E. Watson & H. Texier on the Freud Lacan institute at the Rendering Unconscious podcast series

See https://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/ru301-eve-watson-helena-texier-on-the-freud-lacan-institute/

 

07/2024        E. Watson, Percy French Festival 2024. “Sexuality, Identity and its Discontents in Modern Ireland.” 

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSWen0OHb14

04/2024        E. Watson, Lacan Salon Vancouver. “An Exegesis of the Case Study in the Teaching and Transmission of Psychoanalysis.”

See https://youtu.be/USruoiZwsew?feature=shared

 

04/2023        E. Watson, Lacan in Scotland. “Spectatorship, Drive, and the Gaze.”

See https://youtu.be/nPvYgoPAM2w?feature=shared

03/2023        E. Watson, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin. “Towards a Trans-inclusive Psychoanalysis.”

See https://youtu.be/567q7R8RdOw?feature=shared

05/2021         E. Watson, Prof. J. Nugent & Prof. M. Cronin. Boston College Series of Podcasts on “The Irish Influence” in discussion themed to “Can You Psychoanalyze the Irish?”

See https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/ireland/the-irish-influence/influence-archive—spring-2021.html#tab-7th_may_2021_eve_watson.

 

04/2021         E. Watson and L. Brenner, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Library Talk Podcast Series. Eve Watson in discussion with Leon Brenner about “Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis.”

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j0GfbZuNL8.

01/2021         E. Watson and E. Hutfless. The Freud Museum, Vienna. Video Interview in English. Part of the online exhibition, Analysis Interminable: Psychoanalytical Schools of Thought after Freud.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbKfSohYFTE 

 

06/2020        E. Watson and V. Sinclair, Rendering Unconscious Podcast Series: Psychoanalysis, Art, Politics, Culture. Eve Watson in discussion with Vanessa Sinclair about psychoanalysis, the unconscious, sexuality, group psychology, coronavirus.

See https://tinyurl.com/4be45uhy 

Watson, E. (Forthcoming – 2019). De-mythologizing the feminine in sexuality, with a special emphasis on LGBTQ voices and subjectives. Panel presentation at the July 2019 International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) World Conference.

Watson, E. (Forthcoming – 2019). The function of memory, repetition and working through. Paper presentation at the March 2019 Conference of the Toronto Lacan Psychoanalytic Society, Canada.

Watson, E. (2018). Born this way: On the non-rapport of the psychoanalysis and the discourse of trans. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, USA. Boston, MA.

Watson, E. (2018). Shame and a different trinity: The psychoanalytic importance of remembering, forgetting and mourning. Irish Studies Conference, University of Buffalo, New York.

Watson, E. (2018). Lacan on the feminine in the fifties. Keynote Address at the International Ecrits Psychoanalytic Conferences, Ghent, Belgium.

Watson, E. (2017). Homosexual male intimacies. Panel presentation at the International Psychoanalytic Association Annual Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Watson, E. (2017). The unconscious is politics. Paper presented at the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups’ Annual Conference at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Watson, E. (2016). Presentation on the breadth of Lacan’s work on female sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s. Keynote Address at the Toronto Lacan Psychoanalytic Society, Toronto, Canada.

Watson, E. (2016). What’s to love about queer: Psychoanalysis and contemporary sexuality. Paper presented at the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups’ Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Watson, E. (2016). Bowie’s Non-Human Effect: Uncanniness in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and The Hunger (1983). Das Unbehagen’s 3-day symposium on psychoanalysis, art and the occult. London, England.

Watson, E. (2015). From transsexual to transracial: The rise of identitarianism and challenges to contemporary psychoanalysis. APPI Annual Congress, Dublin, Ireland.

Watson, E. (2015). From transgender to transference: Identitatrian challenges to transference in contemporary psychoanalysis. Paper presented at the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups’ Annual Conference, Ghent, Belgium.

Watson, E. (2015). Shining a light on psychosis and triggers to its violent expression. International Conference on Psychoanalysis and Violence, Fordham University, New York, USA.

Watson, E. (2014). To malaise or not to malaise: Sexuality and symptom in contemporary culture. APPI 21st Annual Congress, Dublin, Ireland.

Watson, E. (2014). I am because I enjoy: Fallacies of freedom and enjoyment in the 21st century. International Inter-Disciplinary Conference, ‘Social Pathologies of the 21st Century,’ Rotterdam, Holland.