Talks Given

  • (With Wanyoung Kim) Anti-Antigone in, We Should Be Willing to Go to the End – Symposium on Slavoj Žižek: A two-day symposium on August 30 and August 31 on the thought of Slavoj Zizek: featuring Slavoj Žižek Graham Harman Duane Rousselle Alenka Zupančič Ciara Cremin Matthew Flisfeder Gabriel Tupinamba Daniel Tutt Nadia Bou Ali Todd McGowan Mari Ruti Mark Gerard Murphy. August 31 2022: (Time on YouTube video: 13:11). 
  •  “What is Philosophy?” in a series of lectures. Saigon International School of Practical Philosophy. Ho Chi Minh City, 2016. 
  • Desire, the Soul, Lacan, and John: Or how can Lacan help recover the radical practice of desire in the practice of Spiritual Direction in Eros, Desire and Spirituality, St Mary’s University, 2015 
  • Ethics of Concealment in a Paradigm of Transparent Enjoyment in Digital Mediation and Working Through in Times of Denial, Disavowal and Splitting: On the Un/Representable. 14-15 Sept 2022. St Mary’s University, Twickenham. 
  • Freud, Lacan, and their Approach to the “Mystical” in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Religion in Times of Conspiracy Theories and Fake News: A joint venture with St Mary’s and the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS). June 10 2021.<https://assocpsy.podbean.com/e/psychoanalysis-culture-and-religion-in-times-of-conspiracy-theories-and-fake-news/?fbclid=IwAR2FKl_G8slazjY9UhDXkCdK2BcBrvJm_RbaNf8KI5teHfEIwjtPM_QZH4A> 
  • From Nurturing the Soul to Neutering the Psyche: From the Imaginary to the Symbolic in the Practice of Lacanian Analysis and its relevance to Christian Spirituality, lecture at Sarum College. Sarum College, 2018. 
  • John of the Cross and Lacan, in John of the Cross: Carmel, Desire and Transformation, at St Mary’s University Twickenham, London, 21st – 23rd June 2021 
  • Lacan and Spiritual Direction. An Exploration of Lacanian Therapeutic Techniques and Their Relevance for 21st Century Spiritual Direction in Lectures at Sarum College. Sarum College, 2018. 
  • Lacan on Religion and Theology Feat. Mark Gerard Murphy, dir. by Emancipations with Daniel Tutt, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT37nmfc_yM Accessed 27 March 2024. 
  • Lacan, Addiction and Spiritual Direction in, Issues in Contemporary Catholic Theology. Durham University, 2012. 
  • Lacanian Analysis and Spiritual Direction: An exploration of the relationship between Lacanian clinical techniques and those practised by 21st-century spiritual directors in lectures at Sarum College. Sarum College, 2020. 
  • NEGATIVITY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS (w/ Duane Rousselle and Mark Gerard Murphy), dir. by Philosophy Portal, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU_uBJYvkRc Accessed 27 March 2024. 
  • Philosophy and Theology in Virtual Reality (Series of YouTube Videos I am making for learners) 2021-current 
  • Podcast with Quique Autrey on Men’s Psychological Health and the Mystical in Lacan, March 2023 
  • Podcast: Mark G. Murphy with Bown, A., Rosenstock, E in, Love: From Incels to Polyamorists. Sublation Media: Psy-Fi August 2022. 
  • Taking Lacan to Church | with Mark Gerard Murphy, dir. by Samsara Diagnostics, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOhi4Mb-0Gw Accessed 27 March 2024. 
  • THE DIRECTION OF DESIRE (w/ Mark Gerard Murphy), dir. by Philosophy Portal, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IrDT-Xpb1c Accessed 27 March 2024. 
  • The Direction of Desire in The Soul in Christian Spirituality. Heythrop College, 2012. 
  • The Four Discourses and Christian Spirituality in Divining the Void. Roehampton University, 2014. 
  • What is Ethics? In a series of lectures. Saigon International School of Practical Philosophy. Ho Chi Minh City, 2016.