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Julie Reshe

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Julie Reshe
Education
EducationSlovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (PhD)
Alenka Zupančič
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Continental philosophy
InstitutionsGlobal Centre for Advanced Studies, University College Cork, University College Dublin
Main interests
Psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, philosophy of death, philosophical pessimism
Notable ideas
negative psychoanalysis, negative practice, feminist depressive realism
Websitehttps://www.juliereshe.com/

Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher, writer, and psychoanalyst known for developing negative psychoanalysis and the broader framework of negative practice. She is a visiting professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin and director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies.[1][2][3]

Philosophy

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Julie Reshe’s work centres on negative psychoanalysis, which she develops as both a theoretical and practical approach. Bringing psychoanalysis into dialogue with philosophical pessimism and depressive realism, she examines death, negativity, suffering, and tragedy as structural dimensions of psychic life, society, and existence itself. Rather than promising cure or consolation, negative psychoanalysis emphasizes forms of relation that emerge through the recognition of suffering as shared and irreducible.

Her central ideas include:

  • Negative psychoanalysis: an approach that questions the opposition between the “healthy” practitioner and the “sick” patient, treating negativity and suffering as shared conditions rather than deviations from an ideal state of psychological health.[4]
  • Negative practice: a broader philosophical and practical framework that moves beyond psychoanalysis and therapy. Unlike self-help and therapeutic models aimed at healing, it creates spaces in which suffering and negativity can be encountered without orienting them toward recovery or redemption.[5]
  • Trauma as initiation: Reshe conceptualizes trauma as an initiation into an altered form of existence, characterized by heightened contact with the destructive and tragic dimensions of reality. Her account challenges therapeutic interpretations centred on damage, maladaptation, and excessively negative perception.[6]
  • The death drive: drawing particularly on Sabina Spielrein, Reshe treats destruction and becoming as inseparable processes. She extends the death drive beyond the individual psyche, treating negativity as constitutive of social reality and existence more broadly.[7][8]
  • Destructive plasticity: developing Catherine Malabou’s concept, Reshe examines irreversible transformations in which trauma, loss, or destruction shatters an existing identity or psychic structure and gives rise to an altered form.[9]

Reshe’s work has been discussed in relation to philosophical pessimism,[10] feminist critiques of positivity,[11] contemporary psychoanalytic theory,[12] and critical approaches to education.[9]

Books

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  • Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive, Springer International Publishing 2023[13][5]
  • Death and Love: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives, edited with Todd McGowan, Routledge 2025
  • Negative Essays: On Death, Love, and Depressive Realism, Negative Press, 2026

References

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  1. ↑ Humphreys, Joe (2023). "Positivity can be toxic. Depressive realism might make you happier". The Irish Times.
  2. ↑ "Depressive Realism: An Interview with Julie Reshe". May 2, 2021. Archived from the original on June 24, 2021. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
  3. ↑ Reshe, Julie (22 June 2024). Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-031-31203-8.
  4. ↑ Gieben, Bram E. (13 November 2024). "Episode 30: Julie Reshe - Negative Psychoanalysis". Strange Exiles.
  5. 1 2 Smith, Everet (2026). "Julie Reshe, Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2023; 144 pgs. ISBN: 978-3-031-31200-7". CSCP / SCPC.
  6. ↑ "What Ukrainian war widows know about love and loss". Aeon.
  7. ↑ Reshe, Julie (28 March 2025). "Spielrein's Negative Psychoanalysis". Death and Love: 146–156. doi:10.4324/9781032663487-19.
  8. ↑ "The Return of Lack: A Post-Feminist Response to Reshe and McGowan". Žižekian Analysis. 1 March 2025.
  9. 1 2 Stock, Nick; Peim, Nick (2025). The Lacanian teacher: education, pedagogy and enjoyment. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-031-93017-1.
  10. ↑ The Routledge history of happiness. New York, NY: Routledge. 2024. ISBN 9781032323190.
  11. ↑ Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity. Coe Hill, Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press. 2025. ISBN 978-1-77258-533-9.
  12. ↑ Rousselle, Duane (2024). Psychoanalytic Sociology: a new theory of the social bond. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350410190.
  13. ↑ Datta, Asijit (March 2025). "Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive: Julie Reshe, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2023, 144 pp., hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-031-31200-7". Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 30 (1): 177–180. doi:10.1057/s41282-024-00453-5.
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