The Undecidable Unconscious

The Undecidable Unconscious: A Journal of Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis is a journal I founded in 2013 in collaboration with fellow psychoanalyst-scholars Alan Bass and Jared Russell. Together, we created a forum for those working at the intersection of metaphysics and psychoanalysis—a space for exploring the limits of thought where psychoanalysis and deconstruction converge.

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The journal’s name reflects my Freudian-Lacanian-Derridean theory of unconscious processes, drawing from Derrida’s concept of undecidability. It speaks to psychoanalysis as deconstruction and deconstruction as psychoanalysis, opening onto all domains where undecidability is in play.

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Building on that foundation, The Undecidable Unconscious website expands this project into a digital, hypertextual, and rhizomatic forum. It engages with questions of health, identity, creativity, ideology, power, desire, and technology—ongoing concerns of mine where unconscious processes and undecidability cannot, as they so often are, be relegated to the margins if a deeper understanding is to be achieved. Like the journal, the website rejects mastery, certainty, and fixed endpoints, embracing instead the complexities, contradictions, and aporias that shape the psyche, relationships, and the world we seek to understand.​