Sitegeist: A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Sitegeist is a space for thinking and questioning philosophy and psychoanalysis, which aims at a change in Geist – spirit, mind, intellect, wit, genius and morale. Emerging from the Site, with its commitment to exploring the extended field of psychoanalytic thinking and engaging with the traditions of European thought, Sitegeist seeks to contribute to a renewal of psychoanalysis, which by engaging with both the theoretical and the clinical, might provide a usable discourse on the subject.
The current psychoanalytic scene displays every sign of crisis: whilst psychoanalysis itself has probably never had more impact, both as a therapeutic intervention and as a cultural vade mecum, its own concepts and self-understanding have been subject to rigorous criticism from within and without. In many cases this has led to outright rejection as newer therapies have made extravagant claims for efficacy and insight. In a parallel way, the explosion of philosophical production after the middle of the twentieth century and the caravan of isms inaugurated by the structuralist revolution in France have left the theory of the subject in a state of radical uncertainty. Yet, such crises, which themselves reflect a period of astonishing change in the possibilities of being human and in the understanding of what it is to be human at all, have every potential for productive and creative responses learning from the traditions that have become unstable and yet moving beyond them.
To facilitate such creative responses, Sitegeist provides an intellectual space where the plurality of traditions of thinking about the subject can engage in a productive colloquy. Once, the institutional loci for such an encounter might have been the university or the lay intelligentsia informed by the emergence of new disciplines, but these have suffered the closure and routinisation associated with professionalisation and the enforcement of canonical understandings of thought: a ceaseless production of party lines or disciplinary stasis. Avoiding this professional territorialisation, the journal is committed to the encouragement, exploration and light-handed orchestration of the polyphony of current thinking about the subject and its vicissitudes.
The journal endeavours to enable dialogue and conceptual engagement without falling into a diffuse eclecticism or seeking to establish new orthodoxies; it seeks to explore the aporias and contradictions of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice while opening up to the potentially fruitful consequences of dissonant intersections between superficially antagonistic models; it provides a space for thinking about experience – in life or the clinic – in ways that might creatively develop the resources and capacities of psychoanalysis broadly conceived; and its main aim is to hold open the frontiers between psychoanalysis and philosophy such that a productive regeneration of both may emerge.
Notwithstanding its peer-reviewed credentials the journal will make every effort to be inclusive. Whilst we publish established authors and practitioners, we will also make every effort to encourage new writers and contributions from clinicians who might not have published already.
The Journal thus:
- Promotes the field and function of the Site.
- Clarifies the Site’s project in the field of psychoanalysis.
- Provides a space for the development of psychoanalytic theory
- Contributes to the debate between psychoanalysis and contemporary thought.
- Provides a space for the articulation of theory and the clinic.
Related Link : http://www.the-site.org.uk
Submissions
Sitegeist uses a peer-review system based around electronic submission. Authors are requested to send their manuscripts (and revisions after acceptance) to our Journal Administrator, Kirsty Hall (kirstychall@googlemail.com), or to Philip Derbyshire (philipderbyshire@hotmail.com). The physical address for contacting the journal is: c/o 35 Manor Road, Potters Bar, Herts, EN6 1DQ.
Submitted manuscripts should include on the title page the author’s full name, affiliation, address, telephone number, facsimile number and email address, as well as a 200-word summary of the paper.
Preparation of Manuscripts
All manuscripts submitted to Sitegeist should conform to the style of the journal as outlined here. Manuscripts must be typewritten and double-spaced, including text, footnotes, extracts and references, sing 8.5 x 11 or A4-size paper with at least 1.5-inch (4 cm) margins all around. An electronic version of the manuscript must be supplied.
The title of the paper, which should be as concise as possible and the author(s) name(s) should appear on the title page.
Author(s) affiliation(s) should be given in an unnumbered footnote on the first page of the paper, together with the correspondence author’s full postal address and email address.
An abstract of no more than 200 words summarizing the essential contributions must be included.
Text Headings. There should be three text headings at most, typed as follows: A (centered); B (underlined flush left); C (underlined and run into paragraph).
Footnotes should be used only if absolutely essential. They should be numbered consecutively and should appear at the bottom of the page on which the reference is made.
Quotation marks, which must be double rather than single, should appear outside low punctuation (e.g., “No,” said the doctor). Single quotation marks are reserved for quotations within quotations.
Artwork – figures, charts, drawings, photographs, etc. – must be supplied as individual black-and-white high resolution digital image files, separate from the text file and named by first author and figure number (e.g., Brown1.tif). Powerpoint files cannot be accepted. Line art should be professionally drawn (freehand lettering is not acceptable). Any cost for preparation or alteration of artwork will be borne by the author(s). Figure captions should be set within the text, on a separate line after the appropriate paragraph. Tables should be double-spaced, with rules top and bottom and under the column heads; there should be no other rules, either horizontal or vertical. The table title goes above the top table rule.
Quotations. Whenever material from another work is quoted directly, the quotation must be exact and must be followed by the source and the page number in parentheses. Quotations of six or more lines should be set off from the text as a block quote, with the date and page number in brackets at the end: [Freud, 1900, p.593]
Permissions. It is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain permissions, where necessary, for material quoted or reproduced from other works. See Chicago Manual of Style for guidelines.
Citations and References
Text Citations
Citations in the text should provide the author’s name and in parentheses, the year of publication of the original paper or book.
Example: According to Freud (1900, 1915),...
Or, if the author’s name does not naturally appear in the sentence, the parentheses contain the author’s name, followed by a comma and the year of original publications. If citations to more than one author are given, they should be separated by semicolons and listed in alphabetical order. Citations to works with four or five authors should use all names on first occurrence, then first author et al. thereafter. Citations to works with six or more authors should use only first author et al. in the text, but with all authors listed in the reference.
Example: It has been suggested (e.g., Bowlby, 1960a, 1960b; Freud, 1926; Kaufman & Rosenblum, 1967a; Maquet et al., 1997) that...
Reference Section
The reference section should include only words cited in the text. References should be listed alphabetically by authors. They should not be numbered. The author’s name is followed by the year of original publication of the article or book. Journal articles: give title of the article, full unabbreviated title of the journal, volume number and inclusive page numbers.
Books: give title (in italics), place of publication, name of publisher and if the year of original publication does not coincide with the edition cited, the year of publication of the edition referred to. Chapters from edited books: give chapter title, title of the book (in italics), name(s) of the editor(s), place of publication, publisher and inclusive page numbers of the chapter.
When several works by one author are referred to, place them in chronological sequence. When an author has published more than one work in the same year, list them alphabetically by title and the date is followed by a, b, c, etc. Single-authored works precede multiple-authored works with the same first author, regardless of date.
If an English version of a work is available or the work was originally published in English, then this version must be used.
(Note: All quotations from Freud’s works that are in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, published by Hogarth Press, London must be cited from there.)
Sample references:
Brown, J. (1997). Title of paper. Full Journal Title, 49 (1): 000-000.
Brown, J. (1998). Title of Book. Place: Publisher.
Brown, J. (1999). Title of chapter. In: Title of Book, ed. J. Smith & M. Smith. Place: Publisher, pp. 000-000.
Freud, S. (1900). The Interpretation of Dreams. Standard Edition, 4/5.
Freud, S. (1928). A Religious Experience. Standard Edition, 21: 167-172
Page Proofs
Author’s alterations are charged to the author.
Editorial Board
Editors
Kirsty Hall, Philip Derbyshire, Stephen Gee, Peter Wood
Book Review Editor
Philip Derbyshire
Journal Administrator
Kirsty Hall
Editorial Policy Committee
Kirsty Hall, Philip Derbyshire, Stephen Gee, Peter Wood
Editorial Advisory Panel
Tessa Adams, Julia Borossa, Bernard Burgoyne, Olga Cox Cameron, John Fletcher, Stephen Frosh, Chris Hauke, Anastasios Gaitanidis, Dany Nobus, Chris Oakley, Haya Oakley, Joanna Ryan, Naomi Segal, Ross Skelton, Paul Verhaeghe, Rob Weatherill, Amy Wygant.
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