Dany Nobus

Professor Nobus joined Brunel in 1996 as a Lecturer in Psychology, becoming a Senior Lecturer in 2001. In 2006 he became Chair of Psychology and Psychoanalysis and Head of the School of Social Sciences, where he is also the Convenor of the MA Programme in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society. As of January 2012, Professor Nobus is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy, Development and External Relations. He is a world-renowned authority on the history, theory and practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis, has published five books, authored over 100 articles, book chapters and reports in various academic and professional journals.

He has presented his work at academic and professional institutions around the world and has conducted clinical workshops for health care professionals on both sides of the Atlantic. Professor Nobus is also an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Creighton University Medical School in Omaha, NE.

Professor Nobus' research interests centre around issues of clinical psychoanalytic work, with a special emphasis on technical matters, and epistemological debates concerning the development, acquisition and transmission of knowledge.

He has also done research on the dynamics of human sexuality, including theoretical studies of the concept of perversion and empirical research on priests who sexually abuse children. His current research activities focus on the theoretical and socio-cultural representations of non-normative sexual behaviours, and the effect of changing representations of fatherhood in Western society on parenting strategies and socialisation practices. New books in these areas are scheduled for publication in the near future.

In addition to his research activities, Professor Nobus plays an active teaching role, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Research Interests

Psychoanalysis, history of psychiatry, epistemology, philosophy of science

Publications

Journal Papers

(Accepted) Nobus, DM., That obscure object of psychoanalysis, Continental Philosophy Review forthcoming 2012

(Forthcoming) Nobus, DM., The currency of analysis: Some reflections on Haydée Faimberg’s ‘The Telescoping of Generations', Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society Forthcoming 2012

(2011) Nobus, D., Ruined by success, but rescued by failure: Theodor Reik and the creative impact of social masochism, Psychoanalytic Review 98 (2) : 171- 182

(2009) Nobus, DM., Perversion as symptom: On defining the sexuality of the other, Analysis 15 21- 30

(2008) Nobus, DM., Phallus Dei, or the sexual religion of the obsessional fantasy, Analysis 14 187- 202

(2007) Nobus, DM., The politics of gift-giving and the provocation of Lars Von Trier's Dogville, Film-Philosophy 11 (2) : 23- 37

(2007) Nobus, DM., Friends and foes under postmodernity: Political identity from a psychoanalytic perspective, Oughtopia: The Journal of Social Paradigm Studies (22) : 5- 25

(2006) Nobus, DM., Sigmund Freud and the case of Moses Man: On the knowledge of trauma and the trauma of knowledge, Journal of European Psychoanalysis 22 (1) : 45- 62

(2006) Nobus, D., Fluctuat nec mergitur or what happened to Reikian psychoanalysis?, Psychoanalytic Psychology 23 (4) : 684- 700 Download publication

(2006) Nobus, D., Polymetis Freud: Some reflections on the psychoanalytic significance of Homer's odyssey, Comparative Literature Studies 43 (3) : 252- 266 Download publication

(2005) Nobus, DM., Lacan in Japan - 2, Journal for Lacanian Studies 3 (1) : 125- 128

(2004) Nobus, DM., Drawing the urinary trait: Fantasy and analytic technique in Lebovici's ‘treatment’ of a transitory perversion, Journal for Lacanian Studies 2 (1) : 141- 152

(2004) Nobus, DM., The punning of reason: On the strange case of Dr Jacques L., Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 9 (1) : 189- 201

(2004) Nobus, DM., Pensamientos para epocas de violencia y tortura: Hacia una ética de indiferencia?, Giros de Aspas 7 53- 77

(2004) Downing, L. and Nobus, D., The iconography of Asphyxiophilia: From fantasmatic fetish to forensic fact, Paragraph 27 (3) : 1- 15 Download publication

(2004) Nobus, D., The punning of reason: On the strange case of Dr Jacques l ..., Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 9 (1) : 189- 201

(2003) Nobus, DM., Spectres of fatherlessness: Social and clinical implications of a modern scourge, Discourse of Sociological Practice 5 (1) : 5- 15

(2003) Nobus, DM., Transference in writing: Some notes on ‘fetishism: the symbolic, the imaginary and the real’, Journal for Lacanian Studies 1 (2) : 309- 316

(2003) Saradjian, A. and Nobus, D., Cognitive distortions of religious professionals who sexually abuse children, Journal of Interpersonal Violence 18 (8) : 905- 923

(2002) Nobus, DM., Symptom and society: A clinical challenge for contemporary psychoanalysis, Modern Psychoanalysis 27 (2) : 179- 203

(2001) Nobus, DM., Driving out old loves: Clinical heuristics in Lacan's Seminar XX, Encore, Analysis 10 74- 87

(2001) Nobus, DM., Violence and psychoanalysis: A question of ethics, Psychological Foundations – The Journal 3 (1) : 38- 42

(2001) Nobus, DM., Beyond the Rebus principle? Psychoanalysis and Chinese dream interpretation, The Letter: Irish Journal for Lacanian Pschoanalysis 22 9- 29

(2001) Nobus, DM., Littorical reading: Lacan, Derrida, and the analytic production of Chaff, Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society 6 (2) : 279- 288

(2000) Nobus, DM., Psychoanalysis vs humanistic therapy: A plea for inhumanity, Self & Society: A Journal of Humanistic Psychology 28 (3) : 8- 14

(1999) Nobus, DM., Of sleuths and saints: Metaphors of the analyst in Freud and Lacan, CFAR Bulletin 2 1- 3

(1999) Nobus, DM., The archaeologist who became a saint: Lacan’s canonization of Freud’s ideal analyst, ERR: The Journal of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups 1 9- 14

(1999) Nobus, D., The seminar. Book XX: Encore, on feminine sexuality, the limits of love and knowledge (1972-1973), JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 35 (1) : 76- 80

(1998) Nobus, DM., Splitting images: Lacan, institutional politics and the social authorisation of psychoanalysis, PS: Journal of the Universities Association for Psychoanalytic Studies 1 (1) : 53- 67

(1997) Nobus, DM., Rumpelstiltskin's revenge: On the importance of proper names in psychoanalysis, The Letter: Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis 9 84- 101

(1997) Nobus, DM. and Libbrecht, K., De franse connectie: Een geschiedenis van de psychoanalyse in België, Tijdschrift voor Psychoanalyse 3 (3) : 132- 149

(1997) Nobus, DM., Symptoms and signs versus transference and speech, Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research 8/9 45- 65

(1997) Quackelbeen, J., Nobus, DM. and Temmerman, K., Auto-erotic asphyxiation: A sexual practice in neurosis and perversion, Clinical Studies: International Journal of Psychoanalysis 3 (1) : 31- 54

(1996) Nobus, DM. and Libbrecht, K., Coming up strong: A short account of the history of psychoanalysis in Belgium, The Psychoanalysis Newsletter 17 13- 26

(1996) Nobus, DM., Not enough and never too much, The Letter: Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalyis 6 110- 117

(1996) Libbrecht, K. and Nobus, D., Making monsters: False memories, psychotherapy, and sexual hysteria - Ofshe,R, Watters,E, SOCIETY 33 (4) : 92- &

(1995) Nobus, DM., Als de dood zijn naam verwerft: Psychoanalytische perspektieven op AIDS, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 26 61- 78

(1995) Nobus, DM., Une jouissance à couper le souffle: À propos d'un cas d'asphyxie auto-érotique, La cause freudienne: Revue de psychanalyse 31 117- 123

(1994) Nobus, DM., Moeten wij Sade herdenken? II. De psychoanalyse voor het Sadiaanse universum, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 22 101- 132

(1994) Nobus, DM., Tijd in het onbewuste: Een drieledige psychische structuur, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 23 139- 148

(1994) Nobus, DM., De kreten van de ademloosheid: Articulaties van het perverse fantasma, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 24 129- 143

(1994) Quackelbeen, J. and Nobus, DM., Veldwaarts tussen het Ene en het Andere, Rondzendbrief uit het Freudiaanse Veld XII (59) : 1- 3

(1994) Nobus, DM., De psychoanalyse: Een onmogelijke wetenschap? Een antwoord aan Isabelle Stengers, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 25 115- 125

(1993) Nobus, DM., Over de functionaliteit van het symptoom in de Borromeaanse knoop, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 18 63- 70

(1993) Nobus, DM. and Quackelbeen, J., Over een opgehelderde referentie bij Freud: Het 'Inexplicable' van L.G. Moberly, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 19/20 35- 42

(1993) Nobus, DM., Freud versus Jentsch: Een kruistocht tegen de intellectuele onzekerheid, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 19/20 55- 65

(1993) Nobus, DM. and Quackelbeen, J., Freud en 'Der Sandmann' of de psychoanalyticus en het literair werk, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 19/20 79- 126

(1993) Nobus, DM., De artistieke geheimenissen van het unheimliche, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 19/20 127- 141

(1993) Nobus, DM., Het unheimliche: Een bibliografisch repertorium, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 19/20 173- 183

(1993) Nobus, DM., Unie versalie tijd?, Rondzendbrief uit het Freudiaanse Veld XI (54) : 1- 4

(1993) Nobus, DM., Moeten wij Sade herdenken? I: Aan gene zijde van verguizing en vergoddelijking, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 21 63- 93

(1993) Nobus, DM., De schroom: Een vrouwelijk affect?, Psychoanalytische Perspektieven 21 119- 129

(1993) Nobus, DM., La struttura temporale dell’inconscio, La Psicoanalisi: Studi internazionali del Campo Freudiano 14 27- 34

(1993) Nobus, DM., El pudor: £un afecto femenino?, Uno por Uno: Revista Mundial de Psico-anälisis 34 4- 9

(1992) Nobus, DM., De interpunctie te Hirbet Qumran, Rondzendbrief uit het Freudiaanse Veld X (50) : 49- 52

(1992) Nobus, DM., Index scriptorum, Rondzendbrief uit het Freudiaanse Veld X (50) : 1- 18

(1992) Nobus, DM., Tussen thematiek en techniek: de kwestie van Wilhelm Hauff, Rondzendbrief uit het Freudiaanse Veld XI (51) : 53- 60

(1992) Nobus, DM., Over toegepaste en andere psychoanalyse, Rondzendbrief uit het Freudiaanse Veld XI (52) : 53- 58

(1992) Quackelbeen, J. and Nobus, DM., A propos de l'élucidation d'une référence freudienne: l'Inexplicable de L.G. Moberly, Quarto 48/49 83- 87

(1991) Nobus, DM., Gezelschap voor psychoanalyse en psychotherapie, Uno por Uno: Boletín de la Escuela Europea de Psicoanálisis 18/19 16-

(1990) Nobus, DM., De ethiek van de vertaler, Rondzendbrief uit het Freudiaanse Veld IX (44) : 3- 21

(1989) Nobus, DM., Het ultieme gedenkteken: Een herlezing van E.A. Poe’s Ligeia, Rondzendbrief uit het Freudiaanse Veld VIII (38) : 3- 17

(1989) Nobus, DM., Sur la fonction du symptôme dans le nœud borroméen, Quarto 37/38 66- 70

Book Chapters

(2012) Nobus, DM., (E)valuating words: Money and gain in the therapeutic economy. In: Vanderbeeken, R., Le Roy, F., Stalpaert, C. and Aerts, D. eds. Drunk on Capitalism: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Market Economy, Art and Science. London : Springer Verlag (11) : 65- 78

(2011) Nobus, DM., Doctoral research training in Psychoanalytic theory in art and performance: Dr Stijn Vanheule in conversation with Professor Dany Nobus. In: Rigorous holes: Perspectives on psychoanalytic theory in art and performance research. London : ArtQuarters Press 7- 20

(2011) Nobus, DM., Borges’ and Hitchcock’s double desire. In: Detalle, B. ed. It's a Poor Sort of Memory That Only Works Backwards: On the Work of Johan Grimonprez. Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz Publishers 61- 72

(2011) Nobus, DM., The worst is yet to come. In: Le Roy, F., Wynants, N., Hoens, D. and Vanderbeeken, R. eds. Tickle your catastrophe!: Imagining catastrophe in art, architecture and philosophy - Studies in performing arts and media. Gent : Academia Press Scientific Publishers 75- 83

(2010) Nobus, DM., Inhospitable to myself: Echoes from a short visit to the Freudian Mindhouse. In: Corris, M., Joseph-Lester, J. and Kivland, S. eds. Transmission Annual: Hospitality. London : Artwords Press 78- 86

(2009) Nobus, DM., Unpredictable inevitability and the boundaries of psychic life. In: Hoens, D., Jöttkandt, S. and Buelens, G. eds. The catastrophic imperative: Subjectivity, time and memory in contemporary thought. Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan 171- 194

(2008) Nobus, DM., Lacan, Jacques (1901-81). In: Kuper, A. and Kuper, J. eds. The Social Science Encyclopedia. New York : Taylor & Francis US (II) : 553- 554

(2008) Nobus, DM., Sandler, Joseph. In: Stroeken, HPJ. ed. Psychoanalytisch Woordenboek: Begrippen, Termen, Personen, Literatuur. Meppel-Amsterdam : Boom 170- 170

(2007) Nobus, DM., Beware of the Anacoluthon! on Zizek’s ideology. In: Vighi, F. and Feldner, H. eds. Did somebody say ideology?: on Slavoj Žižek and consequences. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 134- 143

(2007) Nobus, DM., Unpredictable inevitability: On the causes and consequences of trauma. In: Psychoanalysis and a New Political Paradigm in a Global Age. Seoul : UnHaengNaMoo Publishing Company 14- 26

(2007) Nobus, DM., Vouwen aan een betere toekomst: Over de terugkeer van de metafysica en de eeuw van Deleuze. In: Vanderbeeken, R. ed. Kritische Metafysica: Gilles Deleuze. Brussel : Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België 35- 43

(2006) Nobus, DM. and Bernstein, JA., Neurosis. In: Skelton, RM. ed. The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. Edinburgh University Press 327- 328

(2006) Nobus, DM., Girl. In: Skelton, RM. ed. The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. Edinburgh University Press 192- 192

(2006) Nobus, DM., Diagnosis (Lacan). In: Skelton, RM. ed. The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. Edinburgh University Press 122- 122

(2006) Nobus, DM., Childhood. In: Skelton, RM. ed. The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. Edinburgh University Press 81- 82

(2006) Nobus, DM., Aim/Aim inhibited. In: Skelton, RM. ed. The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. Edinburgh University Press 16- 16

(2006) Nobus, DM., Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. In: Brulotte, G. and Phillips, J. eds. Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature: L-Z. New York : Routledge (2) : 1147- 1152

(2006) Nobus, DM., Matzneff, Gabriel. In: Brulotte, G. and Phillips, J. eds. Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature: L-Z. New York : Routledge (2) : 872- 873

(2006) Nobus, DM., Jelinek, Elfriede. In: Brulotte, G. and Phillips, J. eds. Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature: A-K. New York : Routledge (1) : 694- 695

(2006) Nobus, DM., Bestiality. In: Brulotte, G. and Phillips, J. eds. Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature: A-K. New York : Routledge (1) : 140- 141

(2006) Nobus, DM., Boy. In: Skelton, RM. ed. The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. Edinburgh University Press 66- 66

(2006) Nobus, DM., Sigmund Freud und der fall des mosesmanns: Über das wissen des traumas und das trauma des wissens. In: De Kesel, M. and Hoens, D. eds. Wieder Religion?: Christentum im zeitgenössischen kritischen Denken [Lacan, Zizek, Badiou U.A.]. Wien : Turia & Kant 223- 234

(2006) Nobus, DM., Locating perversion, dislocating psychoanalysis. In: Nobus, D. and Downing, L. eds. Perversion: Psychoanalytic perspectives/perspectives on psychoanalysis. London : Karnac Books 3- 18

(2004) Nobus, DM., Strachey, James Beaumont (1887-1967). In: Matthew, HCG. and Harrison, B. eds. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford : Oxford University Press

(2004) Nobus, DM., Knowledge in failure: On the crises of legitimacy within Lacanian psychoanalysis. In: Casement, A. ed. Who owns psychoanalysis?. London : Karnac Books 203- 225

(2003) Nobus, DM., Lacan's science of the subject: Between linguistics and topology. In: Rabaté, JM. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Lacan. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 50- 68

(2002) Nobus, DM., A matter of cause: Reflections on Lacan’s "science and truth". In: Glynos, J. and Stavrakakis, Y. eds. Lacan & science. London : Karnac Books 89- 118

(2002) Nobus, DM., Illiterature. In: Thurston, L. ed. Re-inventing the symptom: Essays on the final Lacan. New York : The Other Press (3) : 19- 44

(2002) Nobus, DM., Over my dead body: On the histories and cultures of Necrophilia. In: Goodwin, R. and Cramer, D. eds. Inappropriate relationships: The unconventional, the disapproved, and the forbidden. Hillsdale NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 173- 192

(2002) Nobus, DM., Jacques Lacan and the Freudian practice of psychoanalysis [Introduction to the Korean-language Edition]. In: Kim, J. ed. Jacques Lacan and the Freudian practice of psychoanalysis. Seoul : Hana Medical Publishing Co 3- 7

(2002) Nobus, DM., Nonwestern theories of the mind: “A redefinition of Psychology is needed…”. In: Grolier Educational Corporation. ed. Psychology: History of Psychology. New York : Grolier Educational (1) : 144- 151

(2002) Boden, JM. and Nobus, DM., Psychoanalysis: "If you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand". In: Grolier Educational Corporation. ed. Psychology: History of psychology. New York : Grolier Educational (1) : 52- 65

(2001) Nobus, DM., Exhibitionism. In: Michie, J. ed. Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. London : Fitzroy Dearborn 537- 539

(2001) Nobus, DM., Paedophilia. In: Michie, J. ed. Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. London : Fitzroy Dearborn (2) : 1191- 1192

(2001) Nobus, DM., Dutroux Case, Belgium 1996. In: Jones, D. ed. Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London : Fitzroy Dearborn (1) : 704- 705

(2001) Nobus, DM., Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science), German Research Institute, 1919-33. In: Jones, D. ed. Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London : Fitzroy Dearborn (2) : 1189- 1190

(2001) Nobus, DM., Masturbation. In: Jones, D. ed. Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London : Fitzroy Dearborn (3) : 1553- 1555

(2001) Nobus, DM., Psychoanalysing Diana, British Television drama-documentary - 1996. In: Jones, D. ed. Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London : Fitzroy Dearborn (3) : 1974- 1975

(2001) Nobus, DM., Psychoanalysis. In: Jones, D. ed. Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London : Fitzroy Dearborn (3) : 1975- 1977

(2001) Nobus, DM., Jean-Jacques Pauvert, French publisher and writer, 1926-. In: Jones, D. ed. Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London : Fitzroy Dearborn (3) : 1827- 1828

(2001) Nobus, DM., Paedophilia. In: Jones, D. ed. Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London : Fitzroy Dearborn (3) : 1794- 1796

(2001) Nobus, DM., Sadomasochism. In: Jones, D. ed. Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London : Fitzroy Dearborn (4) : 2126- 2127

(2000) Nobus, DM., Freud’s infernal trinity: On the vicissitudes of the ‘tripartite model’. In: Burgoyne, B. ed. Drawing the Soul: Schemas and Models in Psychoanalysis. London : Karnac Books 150- 171

(2000) Nobus, DM., Why I am never nyself: On presence and absence in Lacanian theory. In: Bruna, S. ed. Who am I? The ego and the self in psychoanalysis. London : Rebus Press 181- 198

(2000) Nobus, DM., The uncanny displacement of protection: Analytic reflections on "ornament in the field of vision". In: Kivland, S. and du Ry, M. eds. In the Place of an Object. London : Aldgate Press 97- 109

(1999) Nobus, DM., Freud and Krafft-Ebing as kindred spirits: A re-evaluation of the knowledge governing a powerful historical image. In: Engstrom, EJ., Weber, MM. and Hoff, P. eds. Knowledge and power: Perspectives in the history of psychiatry - Selected papers from the Third Triennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Psychiatry (EAHP), 11-14 September 1996, Munich, Germany. Berlin : Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung 219- 231

(1999) Allen, DF. and Nobus, DM., Le rationalisme morbide dans l’Histoire: À propos d'un cas paradigmatique (Gaston l'utopiste ou E. Minkowski avec G. Orwell). In: Granger, B. ed. Eugène Minkowski: Une œuvre philosophique, psychiatrique et sociale. Levallois-Perret : Interligne 57- 74

(1998) Nobus, DM., Life and death in the glass: A new look at the mirror stage. In: Nobus, D. ed. Key concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis. London : Rebus Press 101- 138

(1997) Nobus, DM., Het subject als wezenloos fundament: Omtrent Lacans verwerping van de subjectieve autonomie. In: Vandormael, J. ed. Ik & het verhaal. Hasselt : Woord en Argument 133- 168

(1997) Nobus, DM., Theorising the comedy of sexes: Lacan on Sexuality. In: Burgoyne, B. and Sullivan, M. eds. The Klein-Lacan Dialogues. London : Karnac Books 105- 124

(1995) Nobus, DM., "It sounds like a scientific fairy tale": Krafft-Ebing, Freud and the role of sexuality in neurosis and perversion. In: Geerardyn, F. and de Vyver, GV. eds. Freud's Pre-Analytical Writings (1877 - 1900): Programme, Abstracts and Bibliography - International Congress, 12 - 15 May 1995 ... Gent. Ghent : Ghent University Publications 79- 81

(1995) Nobus, DM., "Cela ressemble à une fable scientifique": Krafft-Ebing, Freud et le rôle de la sexualité dans la névrose et la perversion. In: de Vijver, GV. and Geerardyn, F. eds. Les écrits pre-analytiques de Freud (1877-1900). Ghent : Ghent University Publications 80- 82

(1991) Nobus, DM., Beschaving en morbiditeit: Prolegomena bij een symposium over kanker. In: Kanker: Organicisme versus psychosomatiek. Ghent : Ghent University Publications - Pain Clinic/Anaesthesia Department 7- 14

Books

(2005) Nobus, DM. and Quinn, M., Knowing nothing, staying stupid: elements for a psychoanalytic epistemology. Routledge

(2000) Nobus, D., Jacques Lacan and the Freudian practice of psychoanalysis. Brunner-Routledge