Michael Szollosy, PhD (Sheffield), PCHE (Sheffield), MA (McGill), BA Hons. (Toronto)
Course Director, MA in Psychoanalytic Studies
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Tel: (+44) (0)114 2220867
Fax: c/o (+44) (0)114 2724095
Email: M.Szollosy@sheffield.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Psychoanalytic responses to postmodernity
- History, power and knowledge in psychoanalytic discourse
- Kleinian and Winnicottian psychoanalysis
- Self-harm
- The role of primary processes in pedagogy
- Conceptualisation of transgression in culture and theory
PhD Supervision
I am currently supervising PhD research on the following topic:
- sexual trauma in Antonia White's and other autobiographical texts
Selected Publications
- Book Chapter: (2002)'"If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!":Reading Auto-Mutilation, Auto-Biography in the work of Christopher Bollas and Sylvia Plath.' in The Vitality of Objects: Exploring the Work of Christopher Bollas. Ed. Joseph Scalia and Lucinda Mitchell Disseminations: Psychoanalysis in Contexts. Gen Ed. Anthony Molino. London: Athlone Press.
- Surviving Our Paradoxes: Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis, Magic Realism.
- Power/Knowledge in Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism.
- `Transgression´s Dependence, Transgression´s Dependents: Re-evaluating the Notion of Transgression in Literary Criticism.´
- `Just Scratching the Surface: Auto-Mutilation and the Resistance to Postmodern Culture.´
- `The Language of/in British Psychoanalysis: Klein and Winnicott.´
Section
I am based in the section of Health Services Research