Meera Lee, Ph.D., LP
Lacanian Psychoanalyst | Manhattan, New York City
Faculty, Asian American Studies | Hunter College, CUNY
Meera Lee is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in Manhattan, New York City, offering a Lacanian orientation in psychoanalysis. Her practice emphasizes speech, desire, and the singular logic of the symptom.
Psychoanalyst
Meera Lee is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan, New York City. Her practice offers Lacanian psychoanalysis with a particular emphasis on speech, the structure of desire, and the singular logic of the symptom. She works with individuals seeking a Lacanian orientation in psychoanalysis and brings a sustained attentiveness to language shaped by her experience as a bilingual clinician, scholar, and professor. She also provides supervision and consultation for analytic candidates and clinicians.
She has expertise in the clinical areas of love, anxiety, depression and trauma, and includes sustained engagement with Asian American psychoanalysis as well as work with individuals living across cultural, linguistic, or national contexts. She regularly works with academics, graduate students, and artists experiencing pressure related to productivity.
Lee has been invited to give lectures and seminars on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan in North American and international psychoanalytic settings. Her scholarly work includes publications and translations in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
She continues her analytic formation with members of the École de la Cause Freudienne (ECF) the New Lacanian School (NLS), within what Lacan called the Freudian Field, and completed a licensure-qualifying analytic training at the National Psychological Association of Psychoanalysis (NPAP).
Lee works in English and Korean.
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) and the Korean translator of Jacques Lacan: The Basics (Routledge, 2024) by Calum Neill: 『라캉을 읽기 위한 기본』 (Yeondoo, 2025). Her new book, What is a Father?: Prohibition, Permission and Desire from Freud to Lacan, is currently under review with the press.
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.