Professor Dany Nobus
Professor - Psychology
Quad North 105
- Email: dany.nobus@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265944
Summary
Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, former Chair and Fellow of the Freud Museum London, Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Creighton University, Omaha NE. Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts--Boston. Main research interests include the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, the history of psychiatry, the intersections between psychoanalysis, philosophy and the arts, and the history of ideas, especially with reference to the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. In 2017, Dany Nobus was awarded the Sarton medal of the University of Ghent for his outstanding contributions to psychoanalytic historiography.
Qualifications:
- PhD Psychology (Ghent)
- MA Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Ghent)
- MSc Clinical Psychology (Ghent)
- BSc Psychology (Ghent)
Newest selected publications
Beira, M. and Nobus, DM. (2025) 'Psychoanalysis In Search of Itself: Jacques Lacan, T. S. Eliot, and the Seductions of Modernism', in Waller, T. and Richards, S. (eds.) Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism. London : Bloomsbury. ISBN 13: 9798765114902. Open Access Link
Nobus, DM. (2025) 'Nature', in Martell, J. (ed.) Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism. London; New York NY : Bloomsbury. pp. 245 - 246. ISBN 13: 9798765109151. Open Access Link
Nobus, DM. (2025) 'Sade Reads d'Holbach: Atheism, Materialism, and Atopy in the Rise of the Avant-Garde', in Martell, J. (ed.) Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism. London; New York NY : Bloomsbury. pp. 129 - 141. ISBN 13: 9798765109151. Open Access Link
Nobus, DM. (2024) 'Errare Humanum Est . . . On Psychoanalysis as Morosophy', in Zeiher, C. (ed.) Stupidity and Psychoanalysis: Lacanian Perspectives on New Subjectivities and Social Forms. New York NY; London : Rowman and Littlefield. pp. 113 - 157. ISBN 13: 9781786616203. Open Access Link
Nobus, DM. (2024) 'Die Furcht vor echten Tränen: Krzysztof Kieslowski und die 'Nachtstelle'', in Finkelde, D. (ed.) Žižek-Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung. Stuttgart : J. B. Metzler Verlag. ISBN 10: 3-662-69607-X. ISBN 13: 978-3-662-69607-1. Open Access Link