Publications | Meera Lee | Licensed Psychoanalyst | New York City

Meera Lee, Phd, LP is a Lacanian Psychoanalyst in New York City. The list below features academic books, articles, essays, and book chapters on psychoanalysis, literature and film.

Monograph

• What is a Father?-from Freud to Lacan: Prohibition, Permission and Desire (Palgrave Lacan Series expected, 2027).

• Who’s Afraid of Hemingway Men: Reconstructing Masculinity (Seoul: Doing-In, 2006): originally titled in Korean 『누가 헤밍웨이 남성을 두려워 하는가?』

Edited Book

• Lacan’s Cruelty: Perversion beyond Philosophy, Culture and the Clinic(Palgrave Lacan Series, 2022)-Hunter Faculty 2022 Book List.

Book Translation (from English into Korean)

• 『라캉을 읽기 위한 기본』 (Yeondoo, 2025): Korean translation of Jacques Lacan: The Basics (Routledge, 2024) by Calum Neill.

Articles in Refereed & Peer-Reviewed Journal

• “Love is the Delusion of Saying: ‘I Love (To) You,’”The Psychoanalytic Review, 112. 2 (June, 2025).

• Book Essay of Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity: Sade Reloaded, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (May, 2025).

• “Humanity and Monstrosity in Bong Joon-Ho’s The Host,”positions: asia critique, 26.4 (November 2018): 719-747.

• “Sorrowful Feeling: Han and Its Haunting Legacies,” Special Issue on Korea, Telos, 184 (Fall 2018): 100-118.     

•  “Reshaping East Asia, Rethinking World Literature” (Co-authored Introduction to the Special Issue of East Asian Literature, co-written), Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 70.3 (Fall 2016): 109-111.

• “‘Doing’” Theory In and About East Asia: Transgression and Translation,” Special Issue of “Problematizing East Asia.” Tamkang Review 46.2 (June, 2016): 3-22.

• “Psychoanalysis as ‘Imaginary Ethnography’ in East Asian Studies,” VERGE: Studies in Global Asias 1.1 (Spring 2015): 69-73. 

Book Chapters

• An Essay on “Preface to the Japanese Edition of the Écrits,” in the edited volume of reading Lacan’s Autres écrits, eds. Calum Neill, Derek Hook & Stijn Vanheule (Routledge, forthcoming).

• “Introduction: Psychoanalysis in the Bedroom,” Lacan’s Cruelty: Perversion beyond Philosophy, Culture and the Clinic. ed. Meera Lee (Palgrave Lacan Series 2022).

• “Perversion after Freud: from the Cruel Father to the Joycean Clinic,” Lacan’s Cruelty: Perversion beyond Philosophy, Culture and the Clinic. ed. Meera Lee (Palgrave Lacan Series 2022)

• “Encore!: Trauma and Counter-memory in Kim Ki-duk’s Time,” Psychoanalyzing Cinema: Lacan, Deleuze and Zizek. ed. Jan Jagodzinski (Palgrave, 2012).

Guest Editor of Journal

• Co-editor of the Special Issue of “Reshaping East Asia, Rethinking World Literature,” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 70.3 (Fall 2016).

Articles in Non-Academic Journals

• “Heb uw naaste lief! Hoe onze samenleving genot vindt in haar eigen wreedheid,” (the original English title: “How to Love Our Neighbor: The Superego and Its Enjoyment”), Aktief 1.4 (2026): 23-25 (Dutch translation for the Belgian magazine).

Essay Translation (from English into Korean)

• A Korean translation of chapter 5 “Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss” of Gabriele Schwab’s Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma. (Columbia University Press, 2010); 「대체된 아이들: 트라우마적 상실의 세대적 물림」 in 21st Century Literature 「21세기 문학」 16, no. 4 (Winter 2012): 26-45.