Since its foundation in the 1970s, OLR has devoted itself to outstanding writing in deconstruction, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, political theory and related forms of exploratory thought. Publishing work by many trailblazing thinkers, the journal takes forward the movement of deconstructive thought in the face of as many forms and institutions as possible.
Launched in 2021, OLR-2 is the journal’s online forum. It will serve as OLR’s main publishing venue for books reviews and other shorter pieces.
‘We Ourselves Speak a Language that is Foreign’: One Hundred Years of Freud’s Uncanny
Nicholas Royle This collection of essays took shape out of a one-day conference at the University of Sussex on midsummer’s day 2019. The call for papers ran as follows: What does it mean to suppose that ‘we ourselves speak a language that is foreign’? A hundred years after the original German publication of Sigmund Freud’s… Continue reading ‘We Ourselves Speak a Language that is Foreign’: One Hundred Years of Freud’s Uncanny
OLR’s Editors
Geoffrey Bennington (Emory University, Managing Editor)
Timothy Clark (University of Durham)
Peggy Kamuf (University of Southern California)
Michael Naas (De Paul University)
Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex)
Book Reviews Editor
Ronald Mendoza-De Jesús (University of Southern California)