Lisa Farley
York University
26 Papers
60 Citations
Lisa Farley is an academic researcher from York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychoanalytic theory & Innocence. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 23 publications. Previous affiliations of Lisa Farley include Keele University.
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Papers
•Journal Article
"The Reluctant Pilgrim:" Questioning Belief After Historical Loss
TL;DR: This article explored the question of belief as it is enacted in the inclination to return to places of history's lost objects and argued that such returns, and the beliefs that fuel them, offer a site in which to consider the persistent, intergenerational effects of history, particularly when the history at stake is one of trauma.
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Squiggle Evidence: The Child, the Canvas, and the "Negative Labor" of History
TL;DR: In this article, two kinds of data are explored: the first is a set of drawings that Winnicott slipped into his notebook during World War II; the second is a published series of images created two decades later in therapeutic consultation with a patient named Eliza.
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The “Shadowy Underside” of Learning History
TL;DR: In the Spring of 2005, a Toronto newspaper headline read: Trip to the Acropolis ends in Ruins as discussed by the authors, and the article tells the story of a sixteen-year-old student named Madelaine who...
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Psychoanalytic notes on the status of depression in curriculum affected by histories of loss
TL;DR: The authors examined the inhibiting effects of depression in the context of the intergenerational relationship between parent and child, and arguably, the teacher and student as well, and suggested that depression, while indeed a painful trace of loss, can hinder the capacity to represent and so encounter the sadness, vulnerability and lost omnipotence that history leaves in its wake.
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Transgender Embodiment as an Appeal to Thought: A Psychoanalytic Critique of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria”
Lisa Farley,RM Kennedy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a psychoanalytic reading of controversies over rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) is presented, defined as a sudden expression of gender discomfort in late adolescence.
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