Clive Thomson, Western University
French
Professor
London, Ontario
cthomson@uwo.ca
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(519) 661-2111 ext. 81211
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Bio/Research
After completing my PhD in French Studies at the University of Toronto in 1977, I spent the first part of my academic career teaching at Queen's University in Kingston and was appointed professor at the University of Western Ontario in 1994. In 2008, I was appointed Professor and Director of the ...
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Bio/Research
After completing my PhD in French Studies at the University of Toronto in 1977, I spent the first part of my academic career teaching at Queen's University in Kingston and was appointed professor at the University of Western Ontario in 1994. In 2008, I was appointed Professor and Director of the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Guelph. My interest in psychoanalysis evolved over many years and reached a turning point in 1998 when I decided to engage in clinical work and intensive training. I completed my psychoanalytic training at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in 2005. At the present time, I experience my clinical work and my teaching as two very interconnected activities where one benefits the other.
In 2006, I received a substantial research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a project entitled "The Emergence of New Sexualities in France between 1870 and 1900". The objective of this project is to study how social, political, literary and medical discourses on sexuality intersected during the pre-Freudian years at the end of the nineteenth-century in France. The work of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot is a particular focus of the project.
To date, my publications and conference papers in the field of psychoanalysis have dealt with the theories of Julia Kristeva, psychoanalysis and democracy, Michel Foucault's attitude toward psychoanalysis, the philosophy of dialogism and psychoanalysis, and the role of animals in the work of Freud and Lacan. A complete list of my publications and papers can be found on the webpage of the University of Guelph.
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In 2006, I received a substantial research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a project entitled "The Emergence of New Sexualities in France between 1870 and 1900". The objective of this project is to study how social, political, literary and medical discourses on sexuality intersected during the pre-Freudian years at the end of the nineteenth-century in France. The work of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot is a particular focus of the project.
To date, my publications and conference papers in the field of psychoanalysis have dealt with the theories of Julia Kristeva, psychoanalysis and democracy, Michel Foucault's attitude toward psychoanalysis, the philosophy of dialogism and psychoanalysis, and the role of animals in the work of Freud and Lacan. A complete list of my publications and papers can be found on the webpage of the University of Guelph.
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