Research interests
* The Frankfurt School and Psychoanalysis
* The Frankfurt School and Literature
* Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
* Psychoanalysis and Literature
Renaissance Studies from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Affiliations
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
Teaching interests
Geoff Boucher teaches literatary studies in the following units:
ALL374 Supernatural Literature
ALL375 Shakespeare
Professional activities
Academic referee for several professional journals
General editor, Thinking Politics series, Edinburgh University Press
Projects
Geoff's current research projects are:
* Analysing the Cultural Contribution of Fantasy Literature
* The Rationality of Literature--Third Generation Frankfurt School and Literature as Communication
Geoff is interested in supervising projects of the following types:
Honours
Projects that focus on the work of Slavoj Zizek and/or Jurgen Habermas
Analyses of contemporary fantasy literature, especially epic fantasy
Shakespeare and other Renaissance drama (Marlowe, Webster pref.)
PhD
Critical interrogations of contemporary Lacanian theory especially the questions of (1) post-Oedipal society (2) the literary sinthome and late Lacan (3) psychoanalysis and politics
Applications of Habermasian approaches to literature to contemporary literature or theoretical explorations of Habermas and literature, including reconstructions of first generation Frankfurt positions
Zizek and literature
Other projects would need to be thoroughly discussed in advance of any application; please look at my publications below for general indications
Publications
Digital books and the far right
Geoff Boucher, Helen Young
(2023), Vol. 37, pp. 140-152, Continuum, Oxford, Eng., C1
Zizek's Critique of the Authoritarian Personality
Geoffrey Boucher
(2022), pp. 1-10, Understanding Zizek, Understanding Modernism, London, Eng., B1
Philip Pullman and Spiritual Quest
Geoff Boucher, Charlotte Devonport-Ralph
(2022), Vol. 2, pp. 26-39, Literature, Basel, Switzerland, C1
Authoritarian politics and conspiracy fictions: the case of QAnon
Helen Young, Geoff Boucher
(2022), Vol. 11, pp. 61-61, Humanities, Basel, Switzerland, C1
Class Politics and the Authoritarian Personality
G Boucher
(2022), Vol. 12, pp. 483-500, International Critical Thought, London, Eng., C1
Geoff Boucher
(2022), Vol. 2, pp. 1-14, Literature, Basel, Switzerland, C1
Habermas and Literature: The Public Sphere and the Social Imaginary
Geoff Boucher
(2021), London, A1
Ernesto Laclau (1935-2014) and Chantal Mouffe (1943-)
Geoffrey Boucher
(2021), pp. 368-375, The Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism, New York, NY, B1
Geoffrey Boucher, Madeleine Schneider
(2021), Vol. 5, pp. 59-98, Berlin journal of critical theory, Berlin, Germany, C1
The Frankfurt School and the authoritarian personality: Balance sheet of an insight
G Boucher
(2021), Vol. 163, pp. 89-102, Thesis Eleven, C1
Rethinking Love as Passion: Jeanette Winterson's The Daylight Gate
Geoff Boucher
(2021), Vol. 1, pp. 44-57, Literature, Basel, Switzerland, C1
Death cults and dystopian scenarios: Neo-nazi religion and literature in the USA today
G Boucher
(2021), Vol. 12, Religions, C1
"To His Coy Mistress" as Memento Mori: Reading Marvell after Zizek
Geoffrey Boucher
(2020), Vol. 14, pp. 1-18, International Journal of Žižek Studies, Leeds, Eng., C1
Revolutionary hope in dark times: Zizek on faith in the future
G Boucher
(2020), Vol. 11, Religions, C1
The use of reader response in the practice of readers and writers: A case study
Michelle Mcrae, Leonie Rutherford, Geoff Boucher
(2020), Vol. 18, pp. 1-21, Synergy, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Lacan and recognition: Jacques Emil Marie Lacan and GWF Hegel
Geoffrey Boucher
(2019), pp. 1-5, Handbuch der Annerkennung, Berlin, Germany, B1
Adorno and the magic square: Schönberg and Stravinsky in Mann's doctor Faustus
Geoffrey Boucher
(2019), pp. 183-211, Reading Adorno : the endless road, Cham, Switzerland, B1
A road not taken: critical theory after Dialectic of enlightenment
G Boucher
(2018), pp. 221-246, Rethinking the enlightenment: between history, philosophy, and politics, Lanham, Md., B1
Tensions in the Post-Althusserian Project: Descriptive Indeterminacy and Normative Uncertainty
Geoffrey Boucher
(2018), pp. 299-322, Discourse, culture and organization : inquiries into relational structures of power, London, Eng., B1
Habermas and literature: the public sphere and the social imaginary
G Boucher
(2018), Vol. 2, pp. 33-60, Berlin journal of critical theory, Berlin, Germany, C1
Shakespeare after Žižek : social antagonism and ideological exclusion in The Merchant of Venice
G Boucher
(2017), pp. 249-281, Everything you always wanted to know about literature but were afraid to ask Žižek, Durham, N.C., B1
G Boucher
(2017), pp. 119-141, Party, state, revolution: critical reflections on Zizek's political philosophy, Baden-Baden, Germany, B1
The long shadow of Leninist politics: radical strategy and revolutionary warfare after a century
Geoff Boucher
(2017), Vol. 25, pp. 141-159, 100 years of European philosophy since the Great War, Cham, Switzerland, B1
The law as a thing: Zizek and the graph of desire
G Boucher
(2017), pp. 23-44, Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Responses to Slavoj Zizek, London, Eng., B1
Ultimate questions: Habermas on philosophy and religion
G Boucher
(2017), Vol. 41, pp. 50-62, Philosophical inquiry, Charlottesville, Va., C1
Psychoanalysis and tragicomedy: measure for measure after Zizek's Lacanian dialectics
G Boucher
(2016), pp. 156-183, Lacan, psychoanalysis and comedy, Cambridge, Eng., B1
A critique of the political theology of Slavoj Zizek
G Boucher
(2016), pp. 1-24, Religion and Political Thought, Leiden, The Netherlands, B1
A Jamesonian theory of theological practice: a critical response to the work of Roland Boer
G Boucher
(2016), Vol. 4, pp. 179-189, Critical research on religion, London, Eng., C1
An ideological conception of politics- critique of zizek on political theology
G Boucher
(2016), Vol. 44, pp. 451-463, Critique (United Kingdom), C1
The Other Kureishi: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Something to Tell You
G Boucher
(2015), pp. 1-20, Hanif Kureishi, London, Eng., B1
The other Kureishi: a psychoanalytic reading of something to tell you
G Boucher
(2015), pp. 99-113, Hanif Kureishi, London, Eng., B1
'A cataclysm of truth from the crisis of falsehood': reading Habermas on Calvino
G Boucher
(2015), pp. 22-37, Parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy, [Melbourne, Vic.], C1
The Lacanian Performative: Austin after Zizek
G Boucher
(2014), pp. 13-32, Zizek and performance, Basingstoke, Eng., B1
G Boucher, M Sharpe
(2011), Vol. 72, pp. 64-79, New formations : a journal of culture / theory / politics, London, England, C1
The politics of aesthetic affect - a reconstruction of Habermas' art theory
G Boucher
(2011), pp. 62-78, Parrhesia, Parkville. Vic., C1
The compositor of the farce of dustiny : Lacan reading, and being read by, Joyce
G Boucher
(2011), pp. 99-118, Analysis, Carlton South, Vic, C1
Zizek's communism and in defence of lost causes
M Sharpe, G Boucher
(2010), Vol. 4, pp. 1-7, International journal of Zizek studies, Leeds, England, C1
An inversion of radical democracy : the republic of virtue in Zizek's revolutionary politics
G Boucher
(2010), Vol. 4, pp. 1-25, International journal of Zizek studies, Leeds, England, C1
Enjoyment as an aesthetic factor : the specificity of the aesthetic in late marxism
G Boucher
(2010), Vol. 16, pp. 29-44, Parallax, Oxon, England, C1
Geoff Boucher
(2009), Vol. 10, pp. 425-430, Critical Horizons, Abingdon, Eng., C1
The times will suit them : postmodern conservatism in Australia
G Boucher, M Sharpe
(2008), Crows Nest, N. S. W., A1
The charmed circle of ideology : a critique of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Zizek
G Boucher
(2008), Seddon, Vic, A1
Postmodern conservatism and reactionary recognition
A Vandenberg, M Sharpe, G Boucher
(2007), pp. 116-134, Recognition in politics: theory, policy and practice, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, B1
From the desire for recognition to a politics of resistance
G Boucher
(2007), pp. 50-64, Recognition in politics : theory, policy and practice, Newcastle, England, B1
G Boucher
(2007), pp. 267-281, Trauma, history, philosophy : with feature essays, Newcastle, England, B1
Bureaucratic speech acts and the university discourse: Lacan`s theory of modernity
G Boucher
(2006), pp. 274-291, Jacques Lacan and the other side of psychoanalysis : reflections on Seminar XVII, Durham, N.C., B1
The politics of performativity : a critique of Judith Butler
G Boucher
(2006), Vol. 1, pp. 112-141, Parrhesia : a journal of critical philosophy, Parkville, Vic., C1
One hand clapping: the phoneme and the nothing
G Boucher
(2005), Vol. 26, pp. 83-93, Filozofski vestnik, Ljubljana, Slovenia, C1
The logical status of Lacan`s 'Formulae of Sexuation'
G Boucher
(2005), pp. 114-143, Letter: Lacanian perspectives on psychoanalysis, Dublin, Ireland, C1
Judith Butler's postmodern existentialism a critical analysis
G Boucher
(2004), Vol. 48, pp. 355-369, PHILOSOPHY TODAY, [Celina, Ohio], C1-1
G Boucher
(2004), pp. 151-172, Telos : a quarterly journal of critical thoughts, [New York, N.Y.], C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
Shelise Marjorie-Rose Robertson
Thesis entitled: Calculated Investors: John Arbuthnot, Hans Sloane, John Woodward, and Slavery
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Mitchell David Cunningham
Thesis entitled: Performing the 'Fiction-Writer's Reader': David Foster Wallace and Critical Rhetoric
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Ilona Urquhart
Thesis entitled: Diabolical Literature: Questioning the Morality of Modernism
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Amy Antonio
Thesis entitled: Fatal Women in Renaissance Tragedy, 1550-1650
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Paul Belanger
Thesis entitled: The Utopian (R)evolution
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Benjamin Walters
Thesis entitled: Free Speech in the Modern World
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kirk Turner
Thesis entitled: Development of the Lacanian Concept of Fantasy: Uncertainty and Signification
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kevin Murphy
Thesis entitled: Asexuality: Towards a Freudian-Lacanian Understanding
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Vincent Le
Thesis entitled: Being and Evil: Philosophy in the Shadow of Augustine
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Michelle McRae
Thesis entitled: Textual Strategies for Promoting Deep Reading in Adolescents
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Ruth Cumberland
Thesis entitled: Revealing the Open Wound: Body Metaphors in Literary Representations of Grief
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Adrienne Margarian
Thesis entitled: A Cross Cultural Study of Somatic Countertransference
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Salvatore Guido
Thesis entitled: After Freud: The Fateful History of Psychoanalysis in Exile
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Leslie Hartley
Thesis entitled: When Fathers Murder Sons: Male Melancholy in Dostoyevsky, Mailer and Murakami
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Daniel Jeffrey Edward Townsend
Thesis entitled: Leo Strauss and Islam
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Paul Venzo
Thesis entitled: Achipelago: a journey across poetic islands of the self
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Daniel Tom Baker
Thesis entitled: Exploring the fantastic: new critical frameworks in an evolving genre
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Robert Bruce Thomson
Thesis entitled: Sir Walter Scott in the Western District: 1836 - 1851
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Adelle Louise Sefton-Rowston
Thesis entitled: Polities and poetics: a 'place' for reconciliation
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Jonathon Redmond
Thesis entitled: Elementary phenomena, body disturbances & symptom formation in ordinary psychosis
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Tim Themi
Thesis entitled: Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism
Doctor of Philosophy, School of International and Political Studies
Alyson Miller
Thesis entitled: Scandalous Texts: The Anxieties of the Literary
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Scott William Tyndale Rawlings
Thesis entitled: Literature and Environmental Ethics: A Dissensual Ecosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts