Writings and Research

My research and writing primarily explore contemporary transformations of subjectivity, the psychic conditions of human existence, as well as changing relationships to time, language, and human connection.

At the intersection of clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and philosophy, this work seeks to reflect on certain contemporary forms of suffering, but also on the conditions that still allow an existence to become inhabitable.

This work unfolds through articles, essays, clinical research, and various ongoing writing projects.

Subjectivity and Contemporary Transformations

Reflections on current transformations of psychic life, contemporary forms of suffering, and shifting conditions of subjectivation.

• When the Third Shifts

  A reflection on contemporary displacements of mediating figures and their effects on subjectivity.

• Negativity as Operator

  A text exploring the way certain psychic experiences stem not from absence, but from a saturation that prevents the emergence of a habitable form.

• What Passes Through

  An exploration of psychic experiences that remain present without fully finding place, language, or transformation.

• Montreal, Form of Time (ongoing project)

  An anthropological and existential exploration of Montreal as a place revealing certain contemporary transformations in our relationship to the world, solitude, and human connection.

Time, Existence, and Forms of Habitation

Works exploring contemporary relationships to time, the psychic inhabitation of the world, and the existential conditions of inner continuity.

• Inhabiting Time

  A meditation on time, the continuity of existence, and the forms that allow a life to become inhabitable.

• Montreal, Form of Time (ongoing project)

  An anthropological and existential exploration of Montreal as a place revealing certain contemporary transformations in our relationship to the world, solitude, and human connection.

Psychoanalysis, Relationship, and Contemporary Clinical Practice

Texts devoted to the therapeutic encounter, contemporary forms of human connection, and the relational challenges of contemporary clinical work.

• Seducing Toward Existence
  A reflection on certain ways of rekindling the desire to exist within psychotherapeutic work.

• Without Memory or Desire
  A reflection inspired by Bion on the capacity to dream psychic experience and transform raw impact into thought.

Artificial Intelligence and Anthropological Transformations

Ongoing work exploring the cultural, psychic, and anthropological transformations introduced by conversational intelligences and contemporary technological systems.

• Accompanied Thought (ongoing project)
  A reflection on conversational intelligences as new symbolic mediations within the contemporary ecology of thought.

• The World Before Us (ongoing project)
  A philosophical and anthropological exploration of transformations in human forms of existence in the age of autonomous technical systems.

A Living Inquiry

These works are part of a broader reflection on the forms that allow human beings to inhabit reality, move through certain limit experiences, and maintain a continuity of existence within a transforming world.

Contact : pfwoodtli@gmail.com