Levinas Seminar Paper Archive

2018 Paper Abstracts

• Richard Cohen-Abstract, Why Populism-Fascism Now? Ethics, Power and the Limits of Liberal Democracy
• Lisa Kieran-Abstract, Disoriented and Bewildered: Reading Levinas as Phenomenological Experience and its Invaluable Contribution to the Work of Therapy
• Anne Gaskins-Abstract, On Being “Enough”: A Levinasian Understanding of Therapeutic Presence, Care, and Love
• Frauke Dorothea John-Abstract-Abstract, Raised to be strong-Learning to be weak
• Maggie Holland-Abstract, Laughing with Levinas: Humor Opens the Door for Ethical Relations
• Ayom Ament-Abstract, Ambiguity, Levinasian Ethics and the “Being at Home” with Justice
• Mary Yoest-Abstract, The Ambiguity of Good Soup
• Sydney Conroy-Abstract, Play Therapy and Levinas
• Augustin Kendall-Abstract, Cultural Appropriation as Levinasian Violence
• Peter Hadreas-Abstract, A Juxtaposition of Levinas and Plotinus on Causality
• Claire LeBeau-Abstract, The Movement of Justice through Dénucleation: Levinas, King and the Personal Dynamics of Peace
• Michael Barber-Abstract, The Ethical Ambivalence of Humor
• Edward Durgan-Abstract, Modes of Resistance to Injustice Radically Reframe Human Existence: Levinas and Diversity of Tactics in Social Justice Mobilization
• Gerber-Abstract, Malignant Normality and Enlivening Guilt: Two Multicultural Patient's Perspectives
• David Harrington-Abstract, Prolegomenon to the Humane Pursuit of Utopia
• Christine Heller-Abstract, What the Lived Experience of Alzheimer’s can Teach Us About Justice: Memory, Dwelling, and Alterity
• Ryan Mest-Abstract, Everything You Wanted To Learn From Levinas, But Were Afraid To Ask Clarice Lispector
• Peter Jan August-Abstract, The Session is a Dream About the Hour
• Steven Larocco-Abstract, Justice, Shame, and Being Weary: Facing All the Others
• Brian Bergen-Aurand-Abstract, Without Intending: Race, Disability, Justice, and Law Between Levinas and Paul-Emile
• Taylor McCarrey-Abstract, Levinas and the Couple: Using Language to Find and Bridge Meaning towards Progression and Justice in Discord Between Partners
• Roy Barsness and Brad Strawn-Abstract, Reaching for the Other: Levinas, Buber and the Moral Third

2017 Paper Abstracts

• Andres Rivera - Abstract, The Teaching Relationship in Levinasian Ethics and Its Promise for Therapy
• Kira Brodie - Abstract, This Side of Immanence Itself: Separation, Transcendence, and Apology— The Work of the Couple  
• Elizabeth Silvestrini - Abstract, Apology, Courage, and Stamina: Embodied Conversation and the Ethical Dimension of Self-Care
• James Hatley - Abstract, “Are you not then Ashamed?”: Liturgies for Living in a Time of Annihilation
• Peter Giannopoulos - Abstract, From the I of Apology to the Self of Expiation
• Eric Severson - Abstract, Levinas and the Paradox of Apology
• Heather MacDonald - Abstract, A Philosophical Approach to Pastoral Psychological Evaluation: Deleuze, Levinas, and Ricoeur
• Sean Levine and Eva Usadi - Abstract, Apology and Moral Injury: Soul Repair and the Apologetic Act in the Aftermath of War
• Jerome Veith - Abstract, Deep Apology: Beyond History, Narrative, and Solidarity
• Shannon Solie - Abstract, Cultural Humility and the Apology: Linking the Therapeutic Ethical with Levinas’ Ethics
• Brock Bahler - Abstract, On the Possibilities and Purposes of Apology: Levinas and Political Apology
• Kimberley Maslin - Abstract Presidential Apologies: Between Defense and Forgiveness
• Ed Durgan - Abstract, Implicit Apologetics and the Ontological Scalpel of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: A Critique from a Psychological Perspective Inspired by Emmanuel Levinas
• Paul Johnson - Abstract, Awaiting Apology: On Expectations of Patriarchal Reconciliation
• David Harrington - Abstract, The Abyss of Natural Narcissism and Its Attendant Mandatories
• Brian Bergen - Abstract, Jokes and Their Relation to the (Un)Apology
• JoAnn Halverson - Abstract, Swept Away by the Apology
• Peter August - Abstract, Stamping, Twisting, and Turning
• Jeremy Gear - Abstract, A View of Addiction and Recovery through the Lens of Levinasian Ethics

2016 Paper Abstracts

• Peter August, The Patient Comes to Love the Therapist and the Therapist Goes on to Write
• Batsheva Bertman, The Paradox of Narcissism: A Levinasian Analyses
• Pavan Brar, What psychotherapists ought to do: A critique of the ethical foundations of evidence-based practice for psychology
• Andrew Carnahan, Adopting a Non-Violent Approach to Addictions, Lessons from Levinas
• Joshua Clegg, Just knowledge: justification in a rationality of peace
• Jerry Evergreen, The caregiver and client dilemma: seeing the other in the relationship in order to be completely human
• Angela Fernandes, Now You See Me: Psychotherapy and the Spiritual Optics of Emmanuel Levinas
• Steen Halling, Phenomenon as “Other” in Phenomenological Research
• Jen Hamann, Boxing, Levinas, and the Ethics of Face-to-Face Encounters: First Hand Experiences in the Ring
• David Harrington, Let’s Dance, Let’s Dance All Night, Let’s Party Hearty: Implicit Religion in Electronic Dance Music Culture
• Paul Johnson, On Taking Care, Making Care, Giving Care, and Being Careful
• Stephanie Johnson, Relations of the Heart: White Anti-Racist Engagement through Facing, Narrative and Co-Creative Space
• Dylan Kellogg, The Third in Therapy and Responsibly Loving the Other
• Claire LeBeau, Love and Fidelity: Reflections on Levinas and Marcel and the Labor of Love
• Ryan Mest, Beyond the being principle?
• Eric Severson, A Time for Shame: Levinas, Diachrony and the Hope of Shame
• Lucas Trout, The Research Question As Ethical Practice: Ontology and Social Justice in Biosocial Science
• Jerome Veith, The Hermeneutics of Having-Been: Historicity’s Relevance in the Memory Crisis
• Alexandra Woollacott, Beyond the Face of the Other: Understanding Gender Identity in Psychotherapy

2015 Paper Abstracts

2014 Paper Abstracts

• Brittany Landrum, Ph.D, Encountering the Rabbit as Other: Exploring Levinas’ Rupture
• Ed Dugan, Psychotherapy and Solidarity with the Vulnerable Other
• Erica Schiller Freeman, Need is Not a Lack: Levinas on the Role of Eating in the Ethical Adventure
• Joe Guppy, My Fluorescent God
• Jeffery Grant,  I Can Hear You Thinking: Listening and "Uncoiling" Through Aesthetic
• Joanne Halverson,  A Humble Brilliance
• Laurent Turgeon-Dharmoo, Levinas, Language & Psychology: A Study of Case and a Case Study
• Leo Krall, Pedagogy of Relationship
• Lucas Trout, Towards an Ethnographic Psychology and a More Loving Model for Research
• Paul Johnson, Whispering Around Silence: Finding Gestures of Acceptance as a New Therapist
• Dr. Ryan Mest, Echoes of Epiculus: The Early Levinas
• Shannon Solie, Opening Heart and Self to the Other: An Experiential Story From the Therapy Room

2013 Paper Abstracts

• Amy Dunville "[title to be determined]"
• Erica Schiller Freeman "The Alchemy of the Word"
• Lane Gerber, Ph.D Hidden (Unheard/Unseen) Injuries
• Paul Johnson “Far Away: Levinas and In-Patient Treatment”
• David R. Harrington "Heel-Sneak, Niche-Thief, Future-Eater"

2012 Paper Abstracts

• Peter August. "Loves Polysemy and the Threshold of Communication."
• J. Rodrigo Reyes, MA. The Poetics Of The Encounter With The Other: Ethical Treatment Of Transgender Patients.
• David Goodman, Levinas, Pornography, ad Pixilated Relation
• Kevin C Krycka, Psy.D. "A Horizon of Asymmetry: Challenges to a Flat World Psychotherapy"
• Sarah LaChance Adams. Exposed to Exposure
• Maddox Pratt, "Making Eros Speak: Levinas, Feminism, and the (Re)imagining of Eros"
• Maxim Livshetz, M.A., Psy.D. "Candidate & David Goodman, Ph.D.- "Exposed to Exposure:
  the Ethical Sensibility of Emmanuel Levinas." 
• Claire Katz- “No one is more self-sufficient than Rousseau”:Dependence, Vulnerability and Levinas’s New Ethical Subjectivity

For abstracts written prior to 2011 please contact the Psychology Department at psychology@seattleu.edu with the paper title and author which are listed below

2011

• Alexandra L. Adame, Ph.D., Seattle University - “Compassion for Things I’ll Never Know”: The Philosophical Basis of Transpersonal Responsibility"
• Michael J. DeVries, Ph.D., Trinity Christian College - "In-habiting Buber’s Thought in the Practice of Psychotherapy"
• Ada Fetters - "What Shall We Do Without Us?"
• David Flaxer - "Levinas in Practice: Mental Health Treatment in a Community-Based Clinic"  
• Jeff Grant and Rodrigo Reyes-Alvarez del Castillo - “A Hopeful Stance: How Ethics, Compassion and Empathy can Elicit Change"
• Steen Halling, Ph.D., Seattle University - "What in the Life World is Levinas Talking About?"  
• Ken Kimmel – “Wounded by the Other: Transcending Narcissism through the Experience of ‘Exteriority,’ as Understood in Levinas, Jewish Mysticism & Dreams”
• George Kunz - “Adults only due to extravagant language, possible misreading of texts, and painful messages about hypostatic therapeutic change”
• Claire Steele LeBeau - "The Delicate Balance between Naming and Bearing, Giving and Receiving, Rejection and Return to the Other: A Levinasian Exploration of Holding Pain"
• Heather Macdonald, David M. Goodman, and Katie Howe –  "The Ghetto Intern: Culture and Memory" 
• Donna Orange - "Inclusion: Attitudes Toward Otherness For Clinical Therapeutics"
• Eric R. Severson - "Disruption and Epiphany: Levinas at Work in Therapy"

2010

• Ada Fetters - Must Out of Sight Mean Out of Mind? Levinas, Language and the Schizophrenic Other
• Brian W. Becker, Ph.D. - The Logic of Love: A Personal Account of Moving Toward the Particular Other 
• David Flaxer - Interiority and Exteriority: Levinas and Psychological Practice 
• David M. Goodman, Ph.D. & Steven Huett, M.A. - Effacing the Divine Trace: The (A)Proximal, Faceless Third-Party and the Psychotherapeutic Dyad 
• Don MacDonald - Levinas Meets Macmurray and They Wonder If Psychotherapy Has Any Merit 
• Eric R. Severson, Ph.D. - Time, Lament and Testimony:Levinas and the Impossible Possibility of Therapy
• Herman Gill, Ph.D. - “Other” as Excluded Self-Object
• Heather MacDonald, Psy.D. - Levinas In The Hood: Portable Social Justice 
• Patrick Cheatham - A Dialogue of Searching: Levinas and The Sexual Encounter

 2009

• Joshua W. Clegg - In a rationality of peace the rupture of the other is inscribed in the acts of reason
• Ed Durgan - Quality of life amongst chronically mentally ill adults on Vancouver's downtown east side across a variety of dwelling situation
• David M. Goodman & Brian W. Becker - The psyche awakened: trauma, violence, and the other  
• George Kunz - Non-useless suffering   
• Kathleen M. Pape - The face of the other as an ethic of motherhood  
• Jeff Warren - Sound and Proximity  

2007

• Kevin C, Krycka Levinas & Gendlin: Joint contributions for a 1st Person approach to understanding difficult situations in the Mid-East
• Corey Beals The Ring of Gyges and Fading Exteriority
• Dominique Walmsley Sensibility and the Face: Breaking Through the Shame
• David M. Goodman and Scott F. Grover Hineni and Transference: The Remembering and Forgetting of the Other
• Al Dueck and Elizabeth Welsh An Unfolding of Love in the Works of Kristeva and Levinas Implications for Psychotherapy
• Leora Bernstein because of confidential information of a case study, she requests her paper not be placed on the web.
  Anyone who would like a copy of her paper ask at lb711@partners.org  
• Brandie Siegfried Levinas, Models of Memory, and the Psychology of Resiliency
• Karen Halsey Turning Toward the Other: Reflections on a Pivotal Experience of Alterity, Desire, and Inspiration in Relationship
• Claire Steele LeBeau Therapeutic Impasse and the Call of the Other to Keep Looking
• John C. Hecker Contemplating an Understanding of Anxiety through Levinas contra Heidegger:  Heroism as a Meaningful Treatment Option
• Marie McNabb A Saying without a Said, the Opposite of Transcendence: Levinas and the aftermath of the violence of murder in PTSD treatment
• Wayne Dykstra Envisioning a Levinas Inspired Psychotherapy
• Mitchell Harris and Brent D. Slife Otherness as Fundamental to Relationship in Psychotherapy
• Gloria Gage A Levinasian Defense for the Homeless 
• Pamela Telkamp Lifelong Learning Face-to-Face: Adult Education and the Theories of Emmanuel Levinas

2006

• David Goodman Demandedness: An Alternative to the Normal Bell Shaped Self 
• Jeff Warren: Is the Mystery of Music the Mystery of the Other?
• George Kunz: Levinas psychoanalysis
• Melissa Geib: To Caress the Other: Emmanuel Levinas and Psychotherapy
• John Hacker: Displacing Individualism with a Paradigm of Others; Considering the Role of Ethnicity in Moral Character Development
• Brian Becker: Self as Other? A Levinasian Analysis of Carl Jung’s Concept of the Self-Ego Relation
• David Harrington: Wish You Were Here
• Anna Orton: The Paradoxical Power of the Symptomatic Child; An Integration of Levinisian Ethics and Family Systems Theory
• Trevor Slocum: From Pride to Humility . He requests that his paper not be placed on the web.
  Anyone who would like a copy may email him at trevor@slocumcounseling.com.
• David Goodman Demandedness: An Alternative to the Normal Bell Shaped Self
• Jeff Warren: Is the Mystery of Music the Mystery of the Other?
• John Hacker: Displacing Individualism with a Paradigm of Others; Considering the Role of Ethnicity in Moral Character Development
• Anna Orton: The Paradoxical Power of the Symptomatic Child; An Integration of Levinisian Ethics and Family Systems Theory
• Trevor Slocum: From Pride to Humility

2005

• Richard Cohen - On the way to a Levinas Inspired Psychology for the Other
• Dueck and Goodman - Substitution and the Trace of the Other: Levinasian Implications for Psychotherapy
• Grimesey - The Tragedy of Domestic Violence: Dynamics and Solutions as Understood Through the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
• Harrington – Time and Weighing: Theodicies of Everyday Life
• George Kunz – How is Responsibility Therapeutic?
• Paul Marcus – Love Without Lust
• Steele - On the way to Interiority: The need for facade and the therapeutic process towards revelation
• Warren – Do I Know You? Memory, Trauma and the Other
• Williams and Gantt - Emmanuel Levinas: Exploring the Possibility of a Meaningful Psychology of Religion