CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: Todd Raymond Dufresne, Ph.D.

GENDER: Male

BIRTH: November 4, 1966

CITIZENSHIP: Canadian

HOME ADDRESS: 150 Cottonwood CrescentThunder Bay, OntarioCanada P7A 3L9

WORK ADDRESS: Department of Philosophy3rd Floor, Ryan BuildingLakehead UniversityThunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1

Office Phone: 807-343-8338 (Lakehead University)Home Phone: 807-631-8786 cellHome Email: todd.dufresne@lakeheadu.ca

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS :

1991-1997 Doctor of Philosophy, Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto. Committee: Paul Antze, (Paul Roazen), Rodolphe Gasché (SUNY Buffalo), Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (U Washington Seattle)

1990-1992 Master of Arts, Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto.Committee: John O’Neill, Paul Antze

1985-1989 Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, London. Gold Medal.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION :

2019 Visiting Professor of English, Seikei University, Tokyo (April to August). 2018 Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto (November to December).2011-2012 Visting Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto.2008-Present Professor of Philosophy, Lakehead University.2008-2011 Founding Director, Advanced Institute for Globalization & Culture (aig+c), Lakehead University.2008-2010 Research Chair of Social & Cultural Theory, Lakehead University.2008-2011 Associated Scholar, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto.2003-2008 Associate Professor & Chair of Philosophy, Lakehead University.2003-2004 Interim Division Head of Human Sciences, Full-Time Secondment to Lakehead’s Faculty of

Medicine, NOMS West, Ontario (July 2003 - April 2004).2002-2003 Assistant Professor & Chair of Philosophy, Lakehead University.1998-2002 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Lakehead University.1997-2000 Research Associate & SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Trinity College, University of Toronto.

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PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS :

A. Publications (all peer reviewed)

(i) Books

2019 The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press (September).

2017 The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, The Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, & All the Riddles of Life, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2013 Killing Freud, trans. in Chinese by Guofang Wang, new Preface, The Commercial Press, forthcoming.

2010 Tales From the Freudian Crypt, Japanese edition, new Preface, trans. Fuhito Endo, Tokyo: Misuzu-shobo.

2010 Killing Freud: Kultur Abad Kedua Puluh dan Kematian Psikoanalisis, Indonesian edition, trans. Agus Riyanto, Indonesia: Kanisius.

2007 Against Freud: Critics Talk Back, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2003/06 Killing Freud: 20th Century Culture & the Death of Psychoanalysis, London & New York:

Continuum Books; reissued in September 2006. Forthcoming in Chinese translation.2000 Tales From the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context, with a Foreword by Mikkel

Borch-Jacobsen, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

(ii) Edited Collections 2017 The Economy as Cultural System, ed. T Dufresne & C. Sacchetti, Indian Edition, New Delhi:

Bloomsbury.2016 Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents, ed. and intro. T Dufresne, trans. G Richter,

Peterborough: Broadview Books.2012 The Economy as Cultural System: Theory, Capitalism, Crisis, eds. Preface T Dufresne, Intro Clara

Sacchetti, London: Bloomsbury. Contributors include Thomas Kemple, Joel Faflak, Mark Kingwell, Kezia Picard, Tim Kaposy, and Franco Berardi.

2012 Sigmund Freud’s The Future of an Illusion, ed. and intro. T Dufresne, trans. G Richter, Peterborough: Broadview Books.

2012/14 Superior Art: Local Art in a Global Context, ed. C Sacchetti, K Picard, M Nisenholt, T Dufresne, Thunder Bay: Definitely Superior Art Gallery & Agency Books.

2011 Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle, ed. and intro T Dufresne, trans. G Richter, Peterborough: Broadview Books. Includes works by Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Lacan, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, etc.

1997 Freud Under Analysis: History, Theory, Practice, edited and intro. T Dufresne, Northvale, N.J. and London: Jason Aronson. Contributors include Sander Gilman, Cornelius Castoriadis, Edward Shorter, Elisabeth Roudinesco, etc.

1997 Returns of the "French Freud": Freud, Lacan, & Beyond, edited and intro. T Dufresne, New York and London: Routledge. Contributors include Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Rodolphe Gasché, Kelly Oliver, John Forrester, Tina Chanter, and Jacques Derrida.

(iii) Chapters in Books

2019 “Sigmund Freud & Sociology (1856-1939),” in Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, eds. George Ritzer & Chris Rojek.

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2017 “Future.” In Fueling Culture: Energy, History, Politics, eds. Imre Szeman et al, Fordham University Press: 170-73.

2016 “Frank Cioffi (1928-2012),” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2016.

2013 “Sigmund Freud.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Childhood Studies. Ed. Heather K. Montgomery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

2012 “Preface,” The Economy as Cultural System, eds. T Dufresne and Clara Sacchetti, London: Bloomsbury: xiii-xv.

2012 “Place, Creativity, and Richard Florida: On the Aesthetics of Economic Development,” in The Economy as Cultural System, eds. T Dufresne and Clara Sacchetti, London: Bloomsbury: 153-168.

2012 “Introduction to The Future of an Illusion” and editorial apparatus for Sigmund Freud’s The Future of an Illusion, Peterborough: Broadview Books: 11-51.

2012 “Rationale & Critical Engagement: An Introduction to Local Art in a Global Context,” inSuperior Art, Thunder Bay: Definitely Superior Art Gallery & Agency Books: 21-28.

2011 “Introduction to Beyond the Pleasure Principle,” Peterborough: Broadview Books: 13-29.2011 ‘The Possibilities of Happiness’: Absolute Narcissism and the Problem of Sociality,” in Beyond

the Pleasure Principle, Peterborough: Broadview Books: 367-75. 2010 “New Preface to Japanese edition of Tales From the Freudian Crypt,” Tokyo: Misuzu-shobou:

1-6.2010 “The Reluctantly Postmodernist Richard Florida: Place & The Aesthetics of

Economic Development,” with C. Sacchetti-Dufresne, in Transitions in Marginal Zones in the Age of Globalization: Case Studies from the North and South, edited and introduced by Thomas Dunk, Thunder Bay: Centre For Northern Studies, 2010.

2007 “Preface” and “Suggested Readings,” in Against Freud: Critics Talk Back, Stanford: Stanford University Press: ix-xv, 161-67.

2007 “Introduction: The Revised Life and Work of Sigmund Freud,” in Against Freud:Critics Talk Back, Stanford: Stanford University Press: 1-7.

2006 “Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939,” in New Makers of Modern Culture, revised edition, ed. J. Wintle, London: Routledge, Vol. 1, pp. 524-28.

2005 “Freud etait-il un menteur?”  In Le livre noir de la psychoanalyse, ed. Catherine Meyer et al.  Paris: les arènes, 2005: 43-47.

1997 “Caught on the Couch: An Introduction to the Works of Paul Roazen,” In Freud Under Analysis, Northvale, N.J. and London: Jason Aronson: xxi-xxvii.

1997 “Going to the Dogs, Or My Life as a Psychoanalyst,” In Freud Under Analysis, Northvale, N.J. and London: Jason Aronson: 207-17.

1997 “Beyond the “French Freud”,” In Returns of the “French Freud,” New York and London: Routledge: 1-10.

1997 “Freud and His Followers, Or How Psychoanalysis Brings Out the Worst in Everyone,” In Returnsof the “French Freud,” New York and London: Routledge: 117-31.

(iv) Invited Editor

2003 Special Issue: “After Psychoanalysis,” Semiotic Review of Books, ed. and introduced by T. Dufresne, vol 13.1 (January). Featuring Alphonso Lingis (USA), Horst Gundlach (Germany), Sonu Shamdasani (England), Frank Cioffi (England), Edward Shorter (Canada), and Fuhito Endo (Japan).

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(v) Art Work (outside peer review)

2011 Curated Elizabeth Buset Art Show, “Icons of Everyday Life,” The aig+c (March).2002 “Jeremy Bentham and Other Signs of Commerce,” Creed Espresso Café, Court Street, Thunder

Bay (December 1-30).

(vi) Articles & Review Articles in Refereed Journals

2020 A Friendly Reply to Fuhito Endo’s “Patricide of Monotheism or Metapsychology: Freud’s Historiography of Transcendental Negativity.” Probably in Seikei English Review.

2017 “Freud, A Day in the Life,” In The Vienna Psychoanalyst; also translated as “Freud, ein Tag in seinem Leben.”

2013 “The Making of a “Freud Basher”: Or, Reflections of a “Supercilious Neurotic,” in The European Legacy, vol. 19, no. 1 (February): 72-82.

2011 “On Film, Theory, & ‘Film-as-Philosophy’: Or, Philosophy Goes ‘Pop’,” Film and Philosophy, ed. Daniel Shaw, volume 15: 139-154.

2008 “Buying Andy Warhol: Review of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol,” in The European Legacy, 13:2: 223-25.

2007 “After Beyond Comes the Future: Freud’s Absurdist Theatre of Reason,” in EnglishStudies in Canada, special issue ed. J Faflak, 32.1 (March 2006):27-43.

2007 “Psychoanalysis Eats Its Own: Or, The Heretical Saint Roazen,” in Psychoanalysis and History, ed. J. Forrester, 9(1): 93-109.

2003 “What’s Next for Psychoanalysis?,” The Semiotic Review of Books, Special Issue, vol 13.1 (Jan).2003 “Facticity, Freud, and Territorial Markings: SRB Interview With Allen Esterson and Frank

Cioffi,” The Semiotic Review of Books, Special Issue, vol 13.1 (Jan).2003 “Deflections: SRB Interview With Edward Shorter,” The Semiotic Review of Books, Special Issue,

vol 13.1 (Jan). 2001 “Retour à Delboeuf - Un entretien de Todd Dufresne avec Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen,” (in French

translation), Ethnopsi, no. 3, October: 69-87.2000 “Sigmund Freud: Idiot and Savant [review essay],” The Semiotic Review of Books (September): 2-

4.1999 “The Making of a Freud Skeptic: An Interview With Frederick Crews,” Skeptic, vol. 7, no. 3: 42-

49.1998 “Freud in Congress: A Critic Speaks,” can, vol. 1, issue 4 (October): 9-10.1998 “Reflections of David Bakan,” Clio's Psyche, vol. 5, no. 2 (September): 65-67.1998 “Analysing Freud: An Interview With Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen,” can, vol.1, no. 1 (July): 9-12.1996 “L'histoire de la psychanalyse - ragot, fiction ou histoire de l'histoire de la psychanalyse?”

SCANSIONS: Actualités de l'interrogation freudienne, French trans. S. Schauder, Numéro spécial, Décembre 1996, no. 6/7: 5.

1996 “Funny Business: The Cartoon Seminar of Jacques Lacan [review essay],” The Boston Book Review, vol. 3, #5: 5, 41.

1996 “An Interview With Joseph Wortis,” The Psychoanalytic Review, 83(4): 589-610.1995 “Joseph Wortis - notorischer Anti-Psychoanalytiker,” Werkblatt, German trans. Marina Leitner,

nr.34: 90-118. 1995 “Anthropology and the Invention of Deconstruction: A Brief Survey,” Alternate Routes: A Journal

of Critical Social Research, 12: 63-79.1995 “Jones on Ice: Psychoanalysis and Figure Skating,” with G. Genosko, The International Journal of

Psychoanalysis, 76: 123-133. 1993 “Derrida, Jarry, Nietzsche: Introducing a Deconstructive Pataphysics, Contra Heidegger,”

re:POST, no. 1: 26-33.

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(vii) Articles in Popular/Academic Magazines/Books

2010 “To SSHRC or Not To SSHRC,” Academic Matters (1/3/2011), online edition.2005 Anthologized in Encyclopedia Neurotica, by Jon Winokur, New York: St. Martin’s Press, pages

78, 253.2004 Op-Ed: “Psychoanalysis is Dead... So How Does That Make You Feel?,” LA Times, February 18:

B13.1995 “Sonja’s Foot Fetish,” This Magazine, vol. 29, no. 2: 18-22.

1994 “Through the Looking Glass: Loblaw, Nichol, and Specular Consumption,” with C.Sacchetti, FUSE (cover/feature), vol. 17, no.4: 22-31.

(viii) Book Reviews

2013 “Review of The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud, and the Birth of the Modern Psyche,” in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 51:1 January: 134-35.

2011 “Review of Architecture in Uniform,” in The European Legacy, vol. 16, no. 7: 994-95.2009 “Is Psychiatry a Failure?,” [feature / double review] in The Globe and Mail, Saturday July 25: F7.2006 “Review of David Wills’ Matchbook: Essays in Deconstruction,” Philosophy in Review, vol. 26,

no. 2: 148-150.2005 “Shrink Rap: Review of Joel Paris’ The Fall of an Icon: Psychoanalysis and Academic

Psychiatry,” The Globe & Mail Book Review, March 19: D11.2004/05 “Review of Edwin L. Hersch’s From Philosophy to Psychotherapy: A Phenomenological Model

for Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis,”University of Toronto Quarterly, volume 74, no. 1: 310-11.

2003 “Review of Rodolphe Gasché’s Of Minimal Things,” International Studies in Philosophy, vol. XXXV/2: 141-42.

2002 “Review of Simon Critchley’s Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Philosophy in Review, vol. XXI, no. 6 (December): 414-15.

2001 “Review of James Williams’s Lyotard and the Political,” Philosophy in Review, vol. XXI, no. 2 (April): 154-56.

2000 “A Potential Murderer at Six: Review of Brenda Webster’s The Last Good Freudian,” The Boston Book Review, vol. 7, issue 5: 13.

1997 “Cynicism Piled Upon Cynicism: Review of Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen’s Remembering Anna O.,” The Boston Book Review, vol. 4, issue 5: 36.

1997 “Intellectual Haute Couture: Review of Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever,” The Boston Book Review, vol. 4, issue 1: 36-37.

1996 “Review of Neville Symington’s Emotion and Spirit,” Psychoanalytic Books, vol. 7, issue 3: 421-25.

1995 “Review of Marie Bonaparte’s Topsy,” Psychoanalytic Books, vol. 6, issue 4: 512-15. 1995 “Mapping Life in the Absurd Lane: A Review of Umberto Eco’s How to Travel With a Salmon,”

The Toronto Star, Sat., July 1: G14.1994 “Review of Paul Roazen’s Meeting Freud’s Family,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral

Sciences, vol. 30: 257-9.1993 “Book Notice for Zygmunt Bauman's Intimations of Postmodernity,” Border/Lines, no. 28: 64.1992 “Blank Generation: Review of Douglas Coupland’s Generation X,” with C. Sacchetti,

Border/Lines, no. 26: 63-64.1992 “Blood Types: Review of Matt Cohen’s The Paris Notebooks,” Border/Lines, no. 24/25: 42-44.

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(ix) Translation

1996 “The Postmodern Impasse,” Guattari Reader, ed. G. Genosko, Oxford: Basil Blackwell: 109-13.

B. Works in Progress

(i) Books

Critical Freud Studies for Beginners. The Art of Christian Chapman Novel Hannah Arendt

C. Invited Public Lectures

2019 “Caught Together, Hanged Together: Freud, Christianity, & Moses & Monotheism.” At Workshop devoted to The Late Sigmund Freud, Keio University, Tokyo (July 4).2016 “Wisdom in the History of Philosophy,” Philosophy Club of Lakehead University (November 28).2013 “Death & Reality: Some Reflections on the 'Cultural Freud’,” Retirees' Association of Lakehead

University (January 17). 2012 “Death, Culture, Reality: On Reading the ‘Late Works’ of Sigmund Freud,” Institute for the

History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto (March 22). 2011 “How to Think with Pictures,” Lakehead University (January). 2010 Film, Theory, & ‘Film-as-Philosophy’: Or, Philosophy Goes ‘Pop’,” University of Alberta

(November). 2009 “The Making of a ‘Freud Basher’,” Guest Lecture Social & Political Thought Lecture Series,

October 15. 2009 “Freud Criticism Today,” Seminar of Dr Mark Solovey, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. October 13.2009 LU Research Chair Public Lecture: Freud Studies, Lakehead University Research Week, March. 2007 “After ‘Beyond’ Comes ‘The Future’: Freud’s Absurdist Theatre of Reason,” Cultural Studies,

Trent University, April. 2004 “Is Freud Good for Medicine?,” Northern Ontario Medical School, East Campus at Laurentian

University (Sudbury), January.2001 “Erichsen’s Fatal Blow: ‘Railway Spine’, The Law, and the Necessary Limits of Interpretation,”

Cultural Mediations Graduate Programme, Carleton University, November 9.2001 “Erichsen’s Fatal Blow: ‘Railway Spine’, The Law, and the Necessary Limits of Interpretation,”

Thursday Lecture Series, Queen’s University, November 8.2001 “Erichsen’s Fatal Blow: ‘Railway Spine’, The Law, and the Necessary Limits of Interpretation,”

The Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism, The University of Western Ontario, November 6.1998 “A Fraud Called ‘Anna O.’: The Compromised Foundations of Psychoanalysis,” Thunder Bay

Bioethics Interest Group and the Philosophy Department, Lakehead University, November 18.1998 “The Other Beyond: Freud, Death and Group Psychology,” Department of English, University of

California at Berkeley, November 8.1998 “Death Becomes You: Freud’s Anti-Sociological Theory of Death,” Department of Comparative

Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, April 10.1998 “Death Becomes You: Freud's Anti-Sociological Theory of Death,” Department of Anthropology

and Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 8. 1998 “French Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Derrida, Death, and Archival Sickness,” The

Psychoanalytic Thought Program, University of Toronto, February 6.

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(i) Guest Lectures

2001 “Postmodernism & Cultural Critique,” to the Intro Class of Cultural Anthropology, Lakehead University, March.

1998 “The Strange Case of Anna O.,” to the Senior Class of The Psychoanalytic Thought Program, University of Toronto, January 27.

D. Conference Presentations

2016 "'You Have No Unconscious': On Freud's Radicalism." Session called "Psychoanalysis as an American Frontier: What Freud Discovered" at the Pacific and Ancient Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) conference, November.

2006 “The Aesthetics of Economic Development: The Vibe, Buzz, Feel, Energy, & Flavour of ‘Place’ in the New Economy,” with C. Sacchetti, New Economies/Old Economies Conference, March 24-25, Thunder Bay, ON.

2004 “NOMS Progress Report,” Inter-Professional Workshop, NOMS West (Lakehead University) & by video to Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON.

2004 “Concluding Remarks,” Inter-Professional Workshop, NOMS West (Lakehead University) & by video to Laurentian University.

2004 “Webcast Symposium on NOMS Education,” from Lakehead University, January.1998 “Josef Breuer’s ‘Theoretical’ Contribution to the Studies on Hysteria,” Research In Progress

Seminar, Archives on the History of Canadian Psychiatry and the Museum of Mental Health Services, Toronto, ON, June 12.

1998 “Rhetoric, The Philosophy of Representation, and the Hysterical Josef Breuer,” The Histories of Theory Conference, University of Western Ontario, The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, April 16-19.

1994 “Anthropology and the Invention of Deconstruction,” The 21st Annual Conference of The Canadian Anthropological Society/ Société canadienne d'anthropologie (CASCA), Vancouver, BC, May 5-8.

1993 “Moi je ne suis pas un Freudiste,” Strategies of Critique VII, York University, Toronto, April 2-3.1993 “Life-Death in Freud-Derrida,” 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference of the SUNY/Buffalo

Department of English, Buffalo, March 20.1992 “Freud’s Interminable Analysis,” 36th Winter Meeting of the American Academy of

Psychoanalysis (AAP), Cancun, Mexico, December 3-6. 1992 “Little Hans, Death, and the ‘Lumf’ Complex,” Strategies of Critique VI, York U, April 3-5.1991 “The Cure For Reason and the Lure of Madness in Foucault’s Melancholia,” Strategies of Critique

V, York University, April 5-7.

E. Professional Service

(i) Seminar/Workshop Organizing

2019 Reviewed draft ms and revised ms for McGill-Queen’s (Kingwell). 2016 Organized and Introduced Imre Szeman (Alberta) on petroculture, March. 2016 Organized and Introduced Max Haiven (Lakehead) on financialization, March.2016 Organized and Introduced Matthew Flisfeder (Winnipeg) on punching Nazis, February.2013 Organized and Introduced Mark Kingwell’s “Morris Lecture” on Kierkegaard and procrastination,

October.2013 Reviewed SSHRC Insight Grant for University of Winnipeg professor. 2009-2011 Principle organizer of public lectures for the aig+c.

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2007 “Panel Discussion: How to Improve Your Chances of Getting a SSHRC Grant,” co-presenter, Lakehead University, May 23.

2004 “Learning Together: The First NOMS Workshop on Inter-Professional Education,” organized by T Dufresne as two-site video workshop, February 6.

2003 “The War in Iraq,” organized and introduced Drs R. Berg, T. Lariviere, and G. Genosko, March.1999 Organized and introduced Professor Kenneth Little’s “‘Pretend I Killed You’: Childrens’ Play and

Specular Consumption,” Lakehead University, January 23. 1998 Introduced Dr. Gary Genosko’s “‘Transversality’: Guattari, Psychoanalysis, and Existentialism,”

York University, April.1993 Organized and introduced Professor Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen’s “Introducing Multiple Personality,”

York University, March. 1993 Organized Professor Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen’s “The Oedipus Problem in Freud and Lacan,”

University of Toronto, March.

(ii) University Administration

2012- Library Department Representative, Lakehead University.2016-17 CRC Selection Committee for Digital Humanities Chair.2015-17 Dean’s Working Committee.2014-15 Chair of Philosophy, Lakehead University.2009-2010 Assessment Committee for Lakehead Social History Institute, Research Office.2009 SSHRC Leaders’ Conference, Ottawa, December 3-4. 2008-2010 Organized, Hosted, & (often) Introduced aig+c public Lecture Series. Lectures/Events include:

Dr Mark Kingwell: Cities (January 2009)Dr Elizabeth McLuhan: Norval Morrisseau (March 2009) Dr Batia Stolar: Immigrant Photography (December 2009)Dr Abigail Bakan: Obama & Globalization(January 2010) Dr Imre Szeman: Oil Culture (February 2010) Silent Film Night: “Modern Times” (February 2010)Silent Film Night (September 2010)Dr Dan Yon: Jazz in the Diaspora (October 2010) Dr Diana Brydon: Education, Community, Globalization (November 2010) Dr Sherene Razack: Native Deaths in Custody (January 2011)

2008-2011 Commissioning Editor, “Features” at aig+c, Lakehead University.2008-2011 Member of the Publications Committee, and Executive Committee, aig+c, Lakehead University. 2008-Present Member of the Judicial Panel of Code of Student Behaviour & Disciplinary Procedures2007-Present SSHRC-Faculty Research Mentor, Lakehead University. 2007-Present Acting Chair of Philosophy, frequently as required.2008 Established Advisory Council of the aig+c (Imre Szeman, George Marcus, Veronica Schild, Henry

Giroux, Franca Iacovetta, Justin Edwards, Mark Kingwell, Steven High, Dan Yon). 2008-2010 Director of the Advanced Institute for Globalization & Culture (aig+c), Lakehead University.2007-2011 Canada Research Chair Assessment & Renewal Advisory Committee, SSHRC Representative,

Reporting to the President, Lakehead University. Decisions include:NSERC Tier I in BiorefiningNSERC Tier II in BiorefiningSSHRC Tier II (after full process, process closed down)SSHRC CRC Chair in Technoculture Studies (renewal)SSHRC CRC in Aging & Health (renewal) NSERC CRC in Sustainable Water Management (renewal) Director, Biorefining Research Institute (approved)DOntario Research Chair (selection & approval)Northern Ontario Heritage Foundation of Canada, Chair in Biorefining. (in process) LU Research Chair, (SSHRC)LU Research Chair, (NSERC)

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Post-Doctoral FellowPost-Doctoral Fellow

2007-2009 Member, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Faculty Assessment and Review Committee.2007-2008 Member of Faculty Ad Hoc Marketing & Promotions. 2002-2007 Chair, Department of Philosophy, Lakehead University; Senate member. 2003-2004 Review Committee for the Department of Philosophy Review.2003-2004 Interim Division Head of Human Sciences, Northern Ontario Medical School (NOMS),

The Faculty of Medicine of Lakehead and Laurentian Universities, June 2003 - April 2004.2003-2004 NOMS Committee Work: 24 Founding Committees, June 2003-April 2004. Committees were

(* indicates greater role): Interim Academic CouncilTheme 2 Writing Group (Social Acct)*Accredited MD Program GroupCurriculum Devlpmt Educ Task Grp* Inter-Discipl Education Task Grp (Chair)

+ Inter-Professional Conference Faculty Profile & Recruitment GroupPhase 1 Committee GroupFaculty Development Group* Undergrad Medical Educ Committee (“Tuesday Group”)Project GroupStudent Assessment CommitteeLibrary Users CommitteeFacilities Project Group* Division of Human Sciences Group (Chair)Capacity Working Group Program Evaluation Committee/Group* Senior Management GroupSelf-Study Group - FacultySelf-Study Group - Institutional Setting (Chair)Faculty Hiring Committee - Medical Sciences* Faculty Hiring Committee - Human Sciences (Chair)Symposia Working GroupPilot Steering GroupNOMS Admissions Committee

2003-2004 Interim Academic Council of the NOMS, Lakehead University Representative.2003-2004 Philosophy Hiring Committee.2003 Chair, Lakehead Faculty Meeting With David Layton-Brown, OCGS, June.2003 Chairs’ Meetings, Philosophy, Dalhousie University, June.2002/03 Special Advisor, Psychology Chair Search.2002-2006 Advisory Council of the Lakehead University Centre for Health Care Ethics.2001/02 Senate Honorary Degrees Committee.2001 Hiring Committee, Faculty Position, Department of Philosophy, Spring.2000 Hiring Committee, Contract Position, Department of Philosophy, Spring.2000-2003 Graduate Co-Ordinator, Department of Philosophy, June - June 2003.1999 Member of Lakehead Senate Executive, Fall.1999 Member of Lakehead Senate; of Arts Executive Committee June-December. 1999/00 Acting Chair, Research Ethics Board of Lakehead University, November-January. 1999 Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy, Lakehead University, July-December 31 (and periodically thereafter); Senate member.1998 ‘Expert Advisor’ for Job Search for the Director of The Psychoanalytic Thought Program, Trinity

College, University of Toronto, May.

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(iii) Supervisory or Graduate Work

2014 Third Reader for Justin Raposo’s MA thesis (Kubrick and psychoanalysis), Department of English.2014 Third reader for Alex Jackson’s MA Thesis (“The Road” and nihilism), Department of English.2010-12 Supervisor of Dr Kezia Picard, Post-Doctoral Fellow with the aig+c: Critical Theory & Foucault.2005 PhD Internal/External Examiner for Leah Clyburg (clinical psychology, gerontology of the

elderly), Department of Psychology, Lakehead University. Completed.2001/03 MA Supervisor for Daniel Hansen (privacy and technology), Department of Philosophy, Lakehead

University. Completed.2001/03 MA Committee Member for Kristina Marcellus (cyborgs), Department of Sociology, Lakehead

University. Completed. 2000- MA Committee Member for Gary Mack (deconstruction, identity, and queer theory), Department

of Sociology, Lakehead University.2000/02 MA Committee Member for Nathan Radke (simulation/ surveillance, Baudrillard/ Foucault),

Department of Sociology, Lakehead University. Completed. 1999/2000 MA Committee Member for Gabriel Furmuzachi (German Idealism, hermeneutics, ‘Canadian’

Philosophy), Department of Philosophy, Lakehead University. Completed.

(iv) Community Service (miscellaneous activities)

2018 Reviewed philosophy manuscript for McGill-Queen’s UP (May). 2017 Reviewed Freud manuscript for Routledge, NY (December). 2017 37 Minute Live Interview on Freud, by Janka Romero, at Cambridge University Press (October).

Posted on CUP Facebook (10,000 views in one week) and then placed on YouTube. 2017 Review of essay for The Southern Journal of Philosophy (September). 2017 “Freud & Thinking ‘the Future’: Parts 1 and 2,” Cambridge University Press (April, May).

http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2017/05/freud-thinking-the-future-cont/2017 “Reflections on Freud, The First Wild Analyst,” Oxford Childhood Studies (May).

https://blog.oup.com/2017/05/freud-first-wild-analyst/#comment-30341142017 Interviewed at The Vienna Psychoanalyst (June); also translated into German. 2016 Wrote backcover recommendation for Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism (Palgrave), by

Dušan Bjelić, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology & Criminology.University of Southern Maine

2016 Reviewed manuscript (on Freud) for Cambridge UP.2015 “Interview with Todd Dufresne,” Figure/Ground (online), September. 2015 Reviewed manuscript (on Freud) for Palgrave.2015 Interviewed by Alejandra Doerner, “History and Systems on Psychology” course, Humboldt State

University, supervised by Dr Tasha Howe (Psychology).2014 Pre-review of Joel Paris’s (McGill Psychiatry) ms, “Why They Believed: Psychoanalysis and

Communism in the 20th Century”2014 “Dr. Todd Dufresne on Freud’s Looming Shadow of Deception: Interview with T Dufresne,”

Posted on Jan 7 at Skeptico: Science at the Tipping Point (46 minutes, online). 2012 Reviewed manuscript on Freud for Routledge, UK.2011 Organizer of Rock and Roll Film Festival, with the aig+c, Paramount Theatre (March).2010 Organizer of Silent Film Night, with professional accompaniment (and choir), September.2009 Organizer of Silent Film Night, with professional accompaniment, February. 2008 Reviewed manuscript proposal for Acumen Books.2007 Profiled for urban photography in Bayview (magazine), Fall: 12-13.2007 Interviewed for CBC Radio (Freud and psychoanalysis), April.2007 Interviewed for Thunder Bay Source article, “The Critics Talk Back” (Against Freud), April.2006 Reviewed manuscript on Freud for Cambridge University Press.2005 Taught Introductory Philosophy, Two Weeks, “Humanities 101,” Lakehead University.2005 Reviewed manuscript on Freud for Palgrave Press.

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2004 Interviewed for CBC Radio (Killing Freud), February.2004 Interviewed for CBC Radio (NOMS workshop), January.2003 Reviewed manuscript on Freud for Routledge, UK.2002 Interviewed for CBC Radio (re student evaluations), May.2002 Interviewed for CBC Radio documentary (re Freud and dogs), February.2000 Feature Interview (re Freud), “Portrait,” Thunder Bay Television News, May.2000 Appearance (re SSHRC award), Thunder Bay Television News, April.2000 Interviewed (re SSHRC award), Chronicle Journal, April.2000 Interviewed (Tales From the Freudian Crypt), Chronicle Journal, February.2000 “Lecture: A Humanities Education” to high school Counsellor’s Seminar, Senate Chambers,

Lakehead University, January.1999 “Lecture: The Value of Philosophy,” as Departmental Representative, to Lakehead University

Open House for local high school students, December.1998 “Lecture: The Value of Philosophy,” as Departmental Representative, to Lakehead University

Open House for local high school students, December.

(v) Associations

2019 Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy2017-Present Posthumanism Research Group, Brock University2016-18 Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association

TEACHING EXPERIENCE :

2019-20 Seminar on Climate Change; Intro; Film; Continental Philosophy2019 Social & Cultural Theory, Granduate Seminar on the Late Freud (Seikei University)2017-18 Intro; Freud & Psychoanalysis; Hannah Arendt; Film & Philosophy2016-17 Intro; Anthropocene; Continental Philosophy2015-16 Intro; Capitalism & Global Warming; Neo-liberal Attack on Universities (seminar); Art &

Philosophy.2014/15 Intro; new Ancient Philosophy course; Continental Phil II; Continental Seminar: Holocaust.2013/14 New Intro to Philosophy courses, Crisis in Capitalism, Aesthetics & the End of Art, Topics in

Continental Philosophy: Freud.2012/13 Intro to Philosophy, Intro to Continental Philosophy: Nietzsche & 20th C Philosophy, Topics in

Continental Philosophy: Freud.2012 Visting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto. Course (Philosophy 319):

Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory. 2010/11 Professor of Philosophy. Courses taught: Introduction to Philosophical Thought, Cultural Studies

& Postmodernism, Thinking After the Holocaust. 2009/10 Professor of Philosophy and Research Chair. Courses taught: Film & Contemporary

Thought, Continental Philosophy II. Reading Course: Freud and Continental Thought (overload).2008/09 Professor of Philosophy and Research Chair. Courses taught: Film & Contemporary Philosophy,

Topics in Continental Philosophy.2007/08 Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy. Courses taught: Introduction to

Philosophical Thought, Cultural Studies & Postmodernism, Continental Philosophy II, reading course in Continental Philosophy.

2006/07 Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy. Courses taught: Introduction to Philosophical Thought and Film, Society, & The Philosophy of Everyday Life.

2004/05 Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy. Courses taught: Introduction to Philosophical Thought and Continental Philosophy.

2003/04 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, on Full-Time Secondment to NOMS, Lakehead’s 11

Faculty of Medicine. Reading course: Deconstruction (overload).2002/03 Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay,

Ontario. Courses taught: Introduction to Philosophical Thought and Medical Discourse & The Work of Ian Hacking.

1998-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario. Courses taught: Introduction to Philosophical Thought, Deconstruction, Cultural Studies and Postmodernism, Philosophical Methods, Hegel-Marx & Beyond, Bioethics, Freud & Philosophy, and Reading Courses (graduate and undergraduate level).

HONOURS AND AWARDS :

2019 Senate Research Committee Award to aid publications ($1500). 2019 Award to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) award ($8000), Federation for the Humanities

and Social Sciences, for The Democracy of Suffering (McGill-Queen’s UP).2017 Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto (November-December). 2016 Faculty Research Award ($5000) to hire an undergraduate researcher (Georgina Chuatico,

Sociology), June-December. Field: the Anthropocene. 2010-2013 SSHRC SRG ($32,000) for “The Late Sigmund Freud” (extended to 2014).2010-2011 Visiting Professor, History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, University of Toronto

(September to June).2008-2011 SSHRC Aid to Small Universities Grant, ($82,000) co-PI for the establishment of the Advanced

Institute for Globalization & Culture and its activities.2008-2010 Research Chair ($50,000) at Lakehead University.2007 Distinguished Research Award. 2007 Strategic Research Opportunity Grant, ($2,000) for co-grant application with Drs. Ron Harpelle

and Chris Southcott.2006 Lakehead University Research Star (1 of 40).2005-08 SSHRC SRG ($23,500) for “The Wreckage of Interpretation: Railway Spine & The Origin of

Trauma.” 2004-05 Social Science and Humanities Research Council Special Institutional Grant, Lakehead

University, ($5,000).2003 “Thirty-Two,” Photograph wins Juror’s Prize, Peoples’ Show, Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

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2000-03 SSHRC SRG ($65,000) for “An Introduction to Critical Freud Studies.” Released from 3 FCE. 1999/00 Social Science and Humanities Research Council Special Institutional Grant, Lakehead University,

($5,000). Used in part for release from .5 FCE. 1999 Contribution to Research Award, Lakehead University.1997-99 Research Associate, Trinity College, University of Toronto.1997-99 SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship. 1997 Nominated for the Dissertation Prize, York University.1995/96 Queen Elizabeth II Ontario Scholarship.1994/95 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.1993-96 York Development Fund/Research Costs Fund.1992/93 Writers’ Reserve Grant, Ontario Arts Council.1991/92 Entrance Scholarship, York University.1988/89 Gold Medal (Highest Average), Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario.

SELECTED CRITICAL REVIEWS/DISCUSSIONS OF AUTHOR’S WORK (OFTEN ABRIDGED) :

2019 Backcover Recommendation of The Democracy of Suffering by Bill McKibben:

“This is a very fine book: philosophy perfectly attuned to our precise -- and unique -- moment, A moment when our species became suddenly very big indeed. Understanding what this means for how we see and understand the world is a crucial first step for the vital project of reducing our impact on everything around us.” 

2019 Backcover Recommendation of The Democracy of Suffering by Andrew Pendakis (Brock):

“Quirky, inviting, funny, but also smart and relevant, Todd Dufresne’s The Democracy of Suffering is a fresh, philosophically informed look at the Anthropocene.”

2018 Review of Killing Freud (in Indonesian) by Moch Fariz Dzulfiqar, Perenung Sunyi:

“There is an oddity, perhaps more appropriately a charm, from a book called ‘Killing Freud’. As soon as you start reading, it’s clear that the allure is due to a secret meaning: ambiguity in the life history of Freud. […] Killing Freud does seem like a massacre and even a character assassination. But this is not like cold-blooded murder whose motives are nothing but the desire to kill. The writing is cynical, sarcastic, and humourous – but is in fact an attemt to commemorate the death of psychoanalysis.” [transl from Indonesian]

2017 Triple Review of the Broadview Freud books by E.A. Danto, “Vienna, Red and Black: Freud’s Milieu,” European Legacy, 22:1, 88-91.

2017 Mentioned in an article by Robert Fulford, “Finding Freud,” The National Post (October 16, 2017).

2017 Review of The Late Sigmund Freud by Daniel Burston, PsycCRITIQUES: Journal of theAmerican Psychological Association, vol. 62, issue 36:

“This book is not merely a reiteration of Dufresne’s previous themes and ideas. On the contrary, it builds impressively on his previous scholarship, deepening and expanding it

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in several directions simultaneously… Although Dufresne’s agenda is mostly critical, of course, this book is also a kind of grudging homage. This book is must reading for anyone interested in the history and historiography of psychoanalysis… Anyone interested in Freud’s life and times will find this an extremely rewarding book.”

2017 Author mentioned twice in “Why Freud Survives,” The New Yorker (August 28, 2017).

2017 Brief review of The Late Sigmund Freud from Choice, by B.C. Beins (Ithaca):

“Dufresne critically examines Freud’s theory, showing that the writings reflected his own psychoanalytic pressures and were often incomplete or contradictory, sometimes leading to ‘head-scratching conclusions’. This book will provide scholars of Freudian theory with useful and complex considerations of Freud’s understanding of culture. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; faculty and professionals.”

2017 Backcover Recommendation for The Late Sigmund Freud, by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (Washington):

“A superb book that will count among a handful of landmark works in the field of Freud Studies.”

2017 Backcover Recommendation for The Late Sigmund Freud, by Richard Kearney (Boston):

“Dufresne serves as a deft, surefooted guide into the dazzling continent of drives explored by Freud’s later ‘cultural’ work.”

2017 Backcover Recommendation for The Late Sigmund Freud, by Liliane Weissberg (Pennsylvania):

“[A] provocative and engaging study….”

2016 Cited in “Freudian Slip: Has the Father of Psychotherapy Fallen out of Favor?,” by Lucy Schouten, The Christian Science Monitor, May 6.

2016 Passing mention in “Therapy Wars: The Revenge of Freud,” by Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, January 7.

2016 Backcover Recommendation for Freud edition, Civilization and Its Discontents, by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (Washington):

“Following on the heals of Beyond the Pleasure Principle and The Future of an Illusion, this new Broadview edition of Civilization and Its Discontents concludes Todd Dufresne’s editorial trilogy on the late “philosophical” Freud. Gregory Richter’s lucid and exact translation rejuvenates the text. Dufresne’s superb introduction renews our understanding of Freud’s final “Romantic science”; excerpts from other works by Freud and from critical responses to his book, and provide context and perspective. At last a truly critical edition of Freud!”

2016 Backcover Recommendation for Freud edition, Civilization and Its Discontents, by Liliane Weissberg (Pennsylvania):

“Todd Dufresne’s thoughtful edition… will be very useful for the classroom, but also of interest for any general reader who wants to learn more about Freud’s work.”

2016 Backcover Recommendation for Freud edition, Civilization and Its Discontents, by Vanessa Parks Rumble (Boston):

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“Gregory Richter’s new translation is complemented by Todd Dufresne’s careful contextualization and lively interrogation of Freud’s most widely read text. Dufresne’s pithy introduction stages the confrontation between Freud and Rolland. Dufresne’s critical reading challenges his audience…”

2012 Backcover Recommendation for The Economy as Cultural System by Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith):

“No longer will the humanities be able to hide itself or others from the confrontation with capitalism facing us all. This provocative collection of critical, and more importantly, self-critical essays doubles down when faced with the retort that cultural studies has lost its relevance: far from irrelevant it is a crucial site for contesting capitalism today.”

2012 Backcover Recommendation for The Economy as Cultural System by Imre Szeman (Alberta):

“A fascinating and theoretically astute collection that ably carries out the task promise by the title. A superb group of established and emerging scholars… Essential reading.”

2012 Review of Freud edition, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, by Michael Larson, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Volume 16, Issue 11:

“This edition allows us to explore in greater detail the roots of the work while exploring the various directions psychoanalysis and continental philosophy have taken in responding to Freud's text. […] The collection of writings gathered here cover a great breadth and demonstrate quite clearly the importance of the ideas proposed in Freud's Beyond.”

2012 Backcover Recommendation for Freud edition, The Future of an Illusion, by Frank Sulloway (Berkeley):

“This new edition and translation of Sigmund Freud's The Future of an Illusion has much to recommend it.  The Introduction, in particular, is a gem of insightful analysis of the conflicting motives and logical inconsistencies that characterize Freud's arguments in this controversial essay.  In laying bare the contradictions inherent in this work, Dufresne brings a fresh and incisive understanding to a book that … remains a thought-provoking and quintessentially Freudian explication of religious belief.”

2012 Backcover Recommendation for Freud edition, The Future of an Illusion, by Daniel Burston (Duquesne University):

“A rigorous and imaginative scholarly collaboration. Richter provides a lucid translation, while Dufresne contextualizes Freud’s puzzling, late life assault on organized religion, and his equivocal embrace of Enlightenment positivism. Bravo!”

2012 Recommendation for Freud edition, The Future of an Illusion, by Thomas Kemple (University of British Columbia):

“Dufresne’s entertaining introduction makes a good case for [this book’s] surprising contemporary relevance, in spite of its often puzzling arguments.”

2012 Brief discussion of Superior Art by Mariana Maguire for Bayview Magazine (Autumn), 42-45:

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“This is the first book of its kind on contemporary art in Northwestern Ontario.”

2012 Backcover Recommendation for Superior Art by Maria Whiteman (Alberta):

“Superior Art asks the question: “Is local art defined by its place of viewing, subject matter, or compositional interpretation?” In so doing it raises important points about the relation of space/place to art practice and exhibition that are not currently being asked, but need to be. The perspective of academics making connections to the community and to artists who are part of the community – and who expend effort identifying what place, location, geography, and space can mean to artists – is interesting, productive, and original. This is a book that many in and out of the art world will find useful.”

2012 Backcover Recommendation for Superior Art by Michael Grillo (Maine):

“Superior Art addresses one of the most pressing questions in our Post-Modern era: How concepts of local culture might play out in myriad, nuanced ways in a hyper-connected, globalised world that too readily treats identities of place, language, and tradition simplistically.  In its breadth of vision, Superior Art balances how artists and their audiences experience the environments they inhabit with their interpretive perceptions shaped by a mix of both local culture and more global, colonising sources. The editors  look to the specific artistic production of Thunder Bay as a model resonant for us all, regardless of where we might live, as we negotiate daily among our individual, community, and global selves. This book will open your eyes to your cultural and natural environments.”

2010 Backcover Recommendation for Freud edition, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, by Mark Kingwell (Toronto):

“Todd Dufresne's book sets a new standard for critical editions of Freud. In addition to the lucid new English translation by Gregory C. Richter, there is a splendidly informative introduction, related excerpts from Freud's other works, and a provocative appendix of critical essays, including contributions from Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marcuse, Derrida, and Zizek, that challenge and destabilize this 'metaphysical' essay of Freud's middle period. The pleasures of the text are rich and complex; in it we see Freud, as Dufresne aptly notes, moving "beyond psychoanalysis, in philosophy" — a journey of joyful intellectual homecoming.”

2010 Backcover Recommendation for Freud edition, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, by Imre Szeman (Alberta):

“In this new edition, Todd Dufresne expertly re-introduces us to a book that has spawned many important philosophical responses and interventions over the past half-century and reminds us why it is such a key book in Freud's oeuvre. Gregory C. Richter's superb new translation and Dufresne's fantastic choice of both older theories on which Freud draws and newer thinkers who draw on Freud make this a book that anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and critical theory should add to their libraries and their classrooms.”

2010 Tamaki Saito, renowned Lacanian psychiatrist, gave the Japanese edition of Tales From the Freudian Crypt a positive review in Asahi-shinbun, a national newspaper. This prominent feedback propelled the book to a first-place ranking among Japan's Amazon sales within the category of Contemporary Thought.

2008 “The Psychopathology of Critical Freud Studies,” review of Against Freud by Mirko Hall (Foreign Languages and Literatures, Converse College), H-Net and H-German (online):

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“In this engaging collection of interviews, editor Todd Dufresne makes another forceful contribution to Critical Freud Studies. Dufresne assembles a far-reaching powerhouse of interviews, [making]… a valuable contribution to contemporary scholarship by articulating the "revisionist" reading of psychoanalysis in an easily accessible volume. Although Dufresne has absolutely no sympathies for psychoanalysis, his editorship is judicious. Even if the discipline is bogus and a "con game," he still believes that it should be legitimately studied as a field of cultural, historical, and political influence. […] A wry tribute to Freud's continuing legacy.”

2008 External reviewer (anonymous) for edited book proposal at Broadview Books:

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“Dufresne’s proposal for a new edition of Freud’s ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’ is an excellent one. Dufresne is an important and well-published Freud scholar and a philosopher. He brings to the task both a scholarly knowledge of Freud and his reception and an understanding of the complex philosophical issues at work in Freud’s text. [...] I recommend the project with enthusiasm.”

2007 Backcover Recommendation for Against Freud by Paul Robinson (Stanford University):

“Todd Dufresne is the leading student of the Freud Wars of recent vintage. In his fascinating new book he assembles interviews with some of the leading warriors... Dufresne himself is a revisionist, but a judicious and learned one.”

2007 Backcover Recommendation for Against Freud by Joel Paris (McGill University):

“This is fascinating work. Dufresne has taken a complex problem of great importance to contemporary culture and made it into a highly accessible volume that holds the reader’s interest throughout.”

2007 “Defining Modern Culture,” review of New Makers of Modern Culture by Richard Davenport Hines, Times Literary Supplement, September 19: 9-10. Passing praise:

“Todd Dufresne’s assessment of Freud [in the book] is irreproachable.”

2006 “Freud Lives!,” feature (cover) article by Slavoj Zizek, London Review of Books, vol. 28, no. 10: 16. Opens salvo with a remark about my claim that Freud is dead. Repeats it again in the “Introduction” to In Defence of Lost Causes.

2005 “Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism,” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, second edition, pages 783-84:

“Finally, scholars such as Lawrence A. Rickels and Todd Dufresne have made specific aspects of Lacan’s theory a less prominent feature of their work; they critique instead the development of psychoanalytic theory as an institutional discourse. [...] Todd Dufresne takes a similarly historical approach in reevaluating the ideas of Sigmund Freud and Lacan by tracing the cultural influences on psychoanalytic thought....”

2005 “Psychoanalysis,” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, lengthy discussion of Killing Freud by Scott Brewster, vol. 13(1), pages 88-93:

“Dufresne has proved himself one of the liveliest commentators on the legacies of Freud, notably in his edited volume Returns of the French Freud and Tales From the Freudian Crypt. His humorous and often exuberant postscript to the Freud Wars, Killing Freud, is his most trenchant attempt yet to demystify psychoanalysis....”

2004 “Disastrous Victory of a 20th Century Shaman: Review of Killing Freud,” The Independent (UK), by Justin Wintle:

“Dufresne does not attempt a demolition of Freud, though he is equipped to do that. He concentrates his fire on weak points in the enemy’s defences. [...] While it is not a book for the uninitiated, for those minded to follow the Freud Wars, its erudition offers sure-fire caviar.”

2004 “Killing Me Softly: Review of Killing Freud,” amazon.com, Robert Kramer:

“A tour de force. With this witty book, Dufresne joins the ranks of the

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sharpest critics of Freud. Put it in your library next to more somber works by scholars such as Roazen, Sulloway, Cioffi, Swales, Holt. The writing is too wickedly funny to take the title literally. [...] What a joker!”

2004 “In Brief: Killing Freud,” The Times Literary Supplement, by Jim Hopkins, February 20, no. 5264:

“Dufresne shows a critical edge in his close discussions of Breuer and Derrida, and states them forcible.”

2004 “Prozac and Freud,” review of Killing Freud, The Economist, January 15:

“Cruelly witty.”

2004 On-line review of Killing Freud, readysteadybooks.com, May 13, 2004:

“Killing Freud is a gloriously knowing parricidal title. Dufresne is quite deliberately goading Freudophiles to berate him with their stock put-downs. But as he explains in this excellent book, the fact of these unthought through, empty, tautological, pseudoscientific psychologisms so define psychoanalysis that [they] prove the Freud-bashers correct. [...] This is a compelling book.”

2004 “Guilty Treasures,” notice for Killing Freud by Martin Levin, Globe & Mail Books, Saturday, July 3 (D13):

“Canadian philosopher, Lakehead University’s Dufresne, fires a salvo in the Freud wars. This learned attack on the ‘talking cure’ and its expositor requires some knowledge of the ideas of Derrida and Lacan, but seems well worth the effort.”

2003 Backcover Recommendation for Killing Freud by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (University of Washington):

“Killing Freud combines impeccable and truly original scholarship with great wit. A flamboyant and hilarious satire of one of our most revered cultural institutions, people will read this book for the sheer fun of it, but they will also learn a lot about psychoanalysis and its role in twentieth-century culture at large.”

2003 Backcover Recommendation for Killing Freud by David Macey (UK):

“In a major contribution, Dufresne attacks both the culture of theory and the culture of therapy.... Witty, provocative and admirably erudite, this is required reading for anyone with a critical concern for the history of psychoanalysis and the human sciences.”

2000 “The Spell: Review of Tales From the Freudian Crypt” by Gary Genosko, The Semiotic Review of Books, volume 11(1) (archived on-line):

“An excellent text. Psychoanalysis in Dufresne’s hands reads like a comic book concerned with horror, a thanatographical delight written not so much for adolescent boys but for philosophers. [...] The proverbial stake in the heart that finally kills the undead monster is delivered by Dufresne with a gusto and verve not normally found in academic books on psychoanalysis. Dufresne is the vampire slayer of the Freud-bashers.”

2000 “Review of Tales From the Freudian Crypt” by Midwest Book Review at Amazon.com (June); also appears in Wisconsin Bookwatch:

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“Five Stars. A seminal, groundbreaking body of work. [...] Tales is a highly recommended contribution to Freudian studies and would admirably serve as a model approach to evaluating and expanding other Freudian concepts throughout the coming decades.”

2000 “The End of Thanatos: Review of Tales From the Freudian Crypt,” by Mark Shechner, The Boston Book Review, vol. 7, issue 4: 37:

“Dufresne is nothing if not a rigorous archaeologist, the connoisseur of delectable fragments, the shards of folly that give us clues to an entire civilization. As he dusts off each recovered piece and sets it on the shelf, he constructs not so much an argument as a gallery: an exhibition of curiosities.”

1999 Backcover Recommendation for Tales From the Freudian Crypt by Frederick Crews (Emeritus, University of CA, at Berkeley):

“Here is a brilliant, wide-ranging, exuberant book by a young scholar who knows the literature surrounding psychoanalysis as thoroughly, and

as cannily, as anyone alive. Nowhere has the deep strangeness of Freud's mind and tradition been more tellingly explored. Tales From the Freudian Crypt is a marvellous contribution not only to Freud studies but to modern intellectual history as well.”

1999 Backcover Recommendation for Tales From the Freudian Crypt by Rodolphe Gasché (SUNY at Buffalo):

“Dufresne’s original, provocative, and scholarly work is a major intervention in current debates about the import and significance of psychoanalysis. It is a much needed blood transfusion that will cause a stir.”

1997 “Jouissance and Controversy: Review of Returns of the “French Freud”,” by Christopher Bullock, The Boston Book Review, vol. 4, # 7 (September): 22-23.

[Double review, with Althusser book] “Dufresne’s book is the most fun. A remarkably diverse group of able historians, analysts, and philosophers

publish texts in this collection... [and] add pieces to the puzzle about Lacan.”

1996 Las disipaciones de lo inconcient [small chapter on my “L’histoire de la psychanalyse - ragot, fiction ou histoire de l’histoire de la psychanalyse?”], by Roberto Harari, Amorrortu editores: Buenos Aires: 175-180.

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