Psychoanalyst

Meera Lee is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan, New York City. Her practice offers a Lacanian psychoanalysis grounded in the ethics of listening —that is, attending to speech, desire, and the singular logic of each subject’s symptom. In addition to working with those seeking a Lacanian orientation in psychoanalysis, Lee brings a refined sensitivity to language and culture shaped by her experience as a bilingual clinician, professor, and scholar. She has extensive experience with Asian Americans, expats, international students, and queer and transgender individuals, as well as with academics, graduate students, and artists. Her clinical specialization includes difficulties around love, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She also provides supervision and consultation for analytic candidates and clinicians.

Lee has been invited to give lectures and seminars on the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan in both North American and international psychoanalytic circles. In addition to her work in the fields of Asian/Asian American Studies and Korean cinema, she has published and translated books and scholarly essays on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

As an analyst, Lee continues to develop her analytic formation with the prominent members of École de la Cause Freudienne (ECF) and the New Lacanian School (NLS), both schools dedicated to the transmission of Jacques Lacan’s teaching within what he called the Freudian Field.

Lee works in both English and Korean.

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Academic

Meera Lee is on the faculty of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College, CUNY. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University. She has taught courses in Asian American studies, Korean cinema, Korean literature, postcolonial theory, and race and sexuality. In addition to these areas, her research and writing focuses on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.

In addition to numerous academic writings on literature, film and psychoanalysis, including her most recent essay, “Love is the Delusion of Saying: ‘I Love (To) You’” in The Psychoanalytic Review (2025), Lee is the editor of Lacan’s Cruelty: Perversion Beyond Philosophy, Culture and Clinic (Palgrave Lacan Series, 2022).

Lee’s forthcoming Korean translation of Jacques Lacan: The Basics (Routledge, 2024) by Calum Neill, titled 『라캉을 읽기 위한 기본』 is scheduled for publication by Yeondoo, Korea in December 2025. She has recently completed a monograph, titled What is a Father?: Prohibition, Permission and Desire from Freud to Lacan.

Lee received her Ph.D. in English from Dankook University, Seoul and was a postdoctoral fellow in the English Department and the Humanities Center at Syracuse University. While at Syracuse, she was co-principal investigator and project director of the Syracuse & Cornell Faculty Working Group (with Professors Emeriti Brett de Bary and Naoki Sakai of Cornell) on the workshop series "Critical Theory and the Global: The Politics of Translation," funded by the Central New York Mellon Humanities Corridor.

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