Darian Leader

Darian Leader (b. Alameda County, California, 1965) is a British psychoanalyst and author.^[1] Leader studied Philosophy in Cambridge, and then History of Science in Paris, where he also trained as an analyst.^[2] He is a founding member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR).^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Darian Leader is President of the College of Psychoanalysts,^[12] a Trustee of the Freud Museum, and Honorary Visiting Professor in Psychoanalysis at Roehampton University.^[13]

Works

Books

• Lacan for Beginners, 1995, later editions with a changed title: Introducing Lacan (2000, 2005)
• Why Do Women Write More Letters Than they Post?, 1996
• Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late, 1997^[14]
• Freud's Footnotes, 2000^[15]
• Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us from Seeing, 2002^[16]
• Why Do People Get Ill? Exploring the Mind-Body-Connection (with David Corfield), 2007^{[17][18][19][20]}
• The New Black. Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, 2008^{[21][22][23][24]}
• What Is Madness?, 2011^{[25][26][27][28]}

Essays

• 1998 'A Response to the Photographs.' In Henry Bond (ed.) The Cult of the Street (London: Emily Tsingou Gallery).
• 1988 'Entries on psychoanalysis.' In "Fontana Dictionary of Modern Though" (London Fontana).
• 1990 'Trahison ou Traduction du Trait Pervers'. In "Navarin" (Paris).
• 1997 Phantasy in Klein and Lacan.' In "The Klein-Lacan Dialogues" (London Rebus Press; Eds Bernard Burgoyne and Mary Sullivan)
• 1998 Lacan’s Schema L, in 'Mapping the Soul, Models and Schemas in Psychoanalysis" (ed Bernard Burgoyne, London, Rebus Press)
• 1998 'Beating Phantasies and Sexuation' in "Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference" (ed "Renata Salecl", "Duke University Press".)
• 2000 'Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams', in "Waterstone’s Guide to Literature", London, pp. 32–36.
• 2003 'Lacan’s Myths', in Jean-Michel Rabate, ed, "‘The Cambridge Companion to Lacan’", (Cambridge University Press), pp.35–49.
• 2004 'Can there be a monopoly on psychoanalysis?' in "'Who Owns Psychoanalysis?'", ed Ann Casement, London, Karnac Books.

Art Essays

• 1998 'A Response to the Photographs' in Henry Bond, The Cult of the Street, Emily Tsingou Gallery, np.
• 1999 'Body Swap', Marc Quinn, Hannover Kunstverein, np.
• 2000 'Sculpture Between the Living and the Dead', in Marc Quinn, Milan, Prada Foundation, pp. 14–19.
• 2002 'Animals Looking Sideways', in Olivier Richon, Royal College of Art.
• 2002 'Eva Hesse', Tate Magazine, 2, pp. 78–81.
• 2002 'The System of Rodney Grahams Costume Trilogy', in Rodney Graham, London, Whitechapel Gallery, pp. 35–43.
• 2002 'Stealing the Mona Lisa, What Art Stops Us from Seeing', London, Faber and Faber.
• 2003 'Out of Place', Art Review, 54, pp. 66–8.
• 2003 'Elastic Band Reality', Modern Painters, 16, pp. 90–93.
• 2003 'Drawing on Space', in Antony Gormley, Domain Field, Gateshead, Baltic, pp. 8–15.
• 2003 'Anya Gallaccio', Modern Painters, 19.
• 2003 'Drawing on Space in Domain Field at Winchester: Antony Gormley', Winchester, Hampshire Sculpture Trust, pp. 8–15
• 2003 'Some Thoughts on Greenbergs Abstract, Representational, and So Forth', in Transmission, Speaking and Listening, ed Sharon Kivland and Lesley Sanderson, Sheffield Hallam University, pp. 15–21.
• 2004 'Drawing in Space' in Antony Gormley, Making Space, Gateshead, Baltic, pp. 57–76
• 2004 'What Turns Something into Something Else?' in Marc Quinn, Flesh, Irish Museum of Modern Art, pp.xi-xiv.
• 2005 'The Double Life of Objects' in Cornelia Parker, Perpetual Canon, Stuttgart, Kerber Verlag, pp. 72–7.
• 2005 'Sophy Rickett', Portfolio, 41, pp. 22–26.
• 2005 'The Information', in Nigel Cooke, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
• 2006 'Primal Scene Photography', in Bettina von Zwehl, Steidl/Photoworks
• 2006 'The Architecture of Life', in Jane and Louise Wilson: Sealander, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
• 2006 'Polymorphous Perverse: Tim Noble and Sue Webster', Time Out, 12 December
• 2007 'Chop Chop', in Loukia Alavanou, Haas and Fischer, Zurich
• 2008 'Life Painting' in Ed Cohen, Jeannie Freilich Gallery, New York
• 2008 'Freudian Tales' in Alice Anderson, Artprojex, London
• 2009 'Assault on the Egg' in Enrico David, Basel Kunstverein
• 2009 'The Blank Page', in This is not a book about Gavin Turk, London, White Cube
• 2009 'In Conversation with Jeff McMillan', The Possibility of an Island, Peer Gallery, London
• 2009 'In Conversation with the Turner Prize artists', Tate Etc, forthcoming
• 2009 'Forms of Attachment' in Martin Creed, Works, Thames and Hudson, London
• 2010 On Antony Gormley, 'Being a Part of It', in Antony Gormley, 'One and Other', Jonathan Cape, London, pp. 312–7.
• 2010 On Dawn Woolley, 'Cut-Outs', in 'Cut to the Measure of Desire', Cardiff n.p.
• 2010 On Christian Marclay, 'Glue', in 'The Clock', White Cube, London n.p.
• 2010 On Anish Kapoor, 'Turning the World Upside Down', in 'Turning the World Upside Down', Serpentine Gallery.
• 2013 On Andrew Grassie, 'Looper', The Rennie Collection, Vancouver
• 2016 On Nigel Cooke, 'Darian Leader in conversation with Nigel Cooke', Phaidon Press, London.

A list of journal articles can be found here.

See also

• Jacques Lacan

References