Todd Dufresne

Todd Dufresne (born 1966) is a Canadian social and cultural theorist best known for his work on Sigmund Freud and the history of psychoanalysis. He is Professor of Philosophy at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.[1]

Education and career

Dufresne (PhD Social & Political Thought, York University, Toronto) was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the now defunct Psychoanalytic Thought Program at Trinity College, University of Toronto, before moving to Lakehead University in 1998. His administrative posts have included Chair of Philosophy, Interim Division Head of Human Sciences at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and Founding Director of The Advanced Institute for Globalization and Culture (aig+c). From 2008-2010 he was Research Chair of Social & Cultural Theory[2] at Lakehead University, and from 2008-2011 he was an "affiliated scholar" at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. He teaches in the areas of Continental philosophy, film, cultural studies, and social and political philosophy.

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Bibliography

As author

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Selected Essays

As editor

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References

  1. "Who Are the Agency, And What Do They Want?," The Argus, March 16 (2010): 9. Archived at: http://www.theargus.ca/articles/news/2010/03/who-are-the-agency-and-what-do-they-want. See also: http://philosophy.lakeheadu.ca/?display=page&pageid=4
  2. Lakehead University Communications: http://research.lakeheadu.ca/research_chair_dufresne.html
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