Paul Kingsbury’s research while affiliated with Simon Fraser University and other places

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Publications (53)


Freud, tourism, and terror: Traversing the fantasies of post-September 11 travel magazines
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January 2004

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159 Reads

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44 Citations

Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing

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Psychoanalysis, a gay spatial science?

September 2003

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Psychoanalysis is primarily a praxis devoted to curing psychic distress. While human geographers are well acquainted with the theoretical insights of psychoanalysis, there are few spatial analyses of how its theories are put to work in its clinical methods, techniques and practices. The thesis of this paper is that an investigation of the intense spatialities in psychoanalytic sessions can further understandings of psychoanalytic theory and its relevance to critical geographic inquiry. I argue that the transferential forces of play, desire and affect in Donald Winnicott and Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic treatment of analysands is a realization of, or at least comparable to what Friedrich Nietzsche called a 'gay science'. In proposing a historical precedent to psychoanalysis, I draw on a constellation of meanings associated with the category 'gay' in order to map some spatial nuances of psychoanalytic praxis. The paper focuses on the case studies of Winnicott's 're-mothering' of a male analysand and contemporary Lacanian analyses of hysterics and autistic children. In striving for clinical efficacy, these psychoanalyses utilize, on the one hand, the gaiety of joy, love, desire and mothering, and, on the other hand, the not-so-gay, yet therapeutic, forces of pain, aggressiveness, separation and mourning. The paper concludes by suggesting future directions for gay psycho-spatial analyses through a brief appraisal of the interdisciplinary social theoretical literature of the 'new Lacanians', in particular the work of Slavoj Z  iz  ek.


Freud, Tourism, and Terror

January 2003

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Travel and tourist magazines are major sources of information about destinations, events, accommodations, and transportation. The majority of this information is conveyed visually through colorful, stimulating, and seductive photographs of familiar landscapes and destinations. We examine a dozen popular U.S. travel magazines in the five months following the events of September 11, 2001 to discern the extent to which issues of risk, security, and anxiety are addressed or disavowed in editorials, articles, advertisements, and photographs. There is little mention of the tragic events on the magazine covers, in photographs, and articles; however, editors and regular staff writers often discussed security and risk and their impacts on destinations. In evaluating the magazines' responses, this paper draws on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to offer the most rigorous utilization of psychoanalytic theory in tourism studies to date. In so doing, we seek to initiate a belated dialogue between critical tourism research and psychoanalytic approaches deployed in the disciplines of geography and social theory. Psychoanalytic concepts such as “symptom,” “ego,” “defense,” and “fantasy” enable us to critically understand the uncanny disjunctures between the exotic, vulnerable, terrorized, and sunny tourist worlds that traversed the pages of post-September 11 travel magazines.


Citations (39)


... This paper also calls for more geographers to study crime fiction. So, while there has been some engagement with crime fiction by geographers and in geography journals (see, for instance, Howell, 1998;Schmid, 1995;Brosseau and Le Bel, 2016;McLaughlin, 2016;Kingsbury, 2023), the genre has largely been overlooked by the discipline. Yet, crime fiction has much more to offer geography. ...

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The subterranean in crime fiction: examining Edinburgh’s underground in Ian Rankin’s John Rebus novels
A literary geography of the sinthome: the case of Sherlock Holmes and The Stormy Petrels of British Columbia
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  • August 2021

... The notion of total 'otherness' achieves its maximum when family members allow themselves to disconnect from any moral responsibility for what happens to 'it.' In and of itself, this moral chasm is humiliating (Burnham, 2021). To put it another way, the parent says it again and again: "if he could only comprehend us" (Kafka, 1915:76), and Grete begins to wonder, "How can that be Gregor?" ...

Lacan and the Environment
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  • January 2021

... Additionally, scholars such as Fredric Jameson, Alain Badiou, Mari Ruti, and Todd McGowan offer significant interpretations of Lacan-Marx-Hegel that also inform my analysis. This radical, transdisciplinary scholarship has much to offer the domain of critical political theory and geography (see Pohl and Kingsbury, 2021;Pohl and Swyngedouw, 2023). Their perspectives share a common interest in understanding our individual and collective relationships toward antagonism and emancipation and will be useful for understanding the events that take place in Hot Skull. ...

The Most Sublime Geographer: Žižek with Place, Distance, and Scale
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  • April 2021

... Second, the cave's unending mystery "captures" them and drives them forward; we might consider this a kind of constitutive non-knowledge. Perhaps akin to the psychoanalytic concept of "The Thing" which can never be attained (Keane and Kingsbury, 2021), this mystery is manifest in an imagination and experience of the cave as inexhaustible--and thus manifests as an insatiable desire to continue onward. If "to think with caves or within caves is to be required to play with questions of knowing" (Parrott and Hawkins, 2021: 97) for no other reason than the weight of Platonic allegory, Bachelard suggests that "In poetry, non-knowing is a primal condition" (2014: 17). ...

Raising Sasquatch to the Place of the Cryptozoological Thing
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  • February 2021

... Both have occurred. Recently, scholars across disciplines have taken anomalies more seriously, from cooperation within academia to conferences and written collaboration with public partners (Agrama, 2021;Graves, 2023;Kingsbury, 2019;Kripal, 2011;Limina, 2023;Masters, 2021;Wendt and Duvall, 2008). During the weekend of February 10, 2023, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) made international headlines when it shot down three UAP: one over the Alaskan coast on Friday, one over central Yukon on Saturday, and one over Lake Huron on Sunday. ...

Go figural: crop circle research and the extraordinary rifts of landscape
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  • November 2018

Cultural Geographies

... Secor captures this 'lack in nature' when she highlights that even water is not 'supposed to know', and thus lacks a firm and stable instinctual foundation, or that lightning knows 'nothing of the ground' before it hits the earth. In Lacanian terms, I read this part of Secor's argument as a powerful statement that 'the big Other does not exist'neither in culture (Kingsbury, 2017) nor in nature (Pohl, 2020). The big Other would indicate that there is an indissoluble and consistent 'ground' that constitutes a firm ontological basis for both knowledge and action. ...

Uneasiness in culture, or negotiating the sublime distances towards the big Other
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  • June 2017

Geography Compass

... Links between social integration and social enterprise workspaces are poorly understood, and lack empirical assessment (Keane et al., 2017). We applied mixed methods to explore how relations within a social enterprise contribute to social integration. ...

Linking online social proximity and workplace location: social enterprise employees in British Columbia

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... 6 Even if no one pictures enjoyment as a question raised by Lefebvre and Lacan, this is by far the first geographic contribution to Lacanian enjoyment. Paul Kingsbury (2005) pictures the "politics of enjoyment" regarding Jamaican tourism, Jesse Proudfoot (2010) gives an example of enjoyment as "extradiscursive" by reflecting on interviews during an international soccer competition in Vancouver, and Proudfoot and Kingsbury (2014) have published a work on "phallic jouissance" by focusing on masculine sexuation in submarine films, to mention just a few essential works. ...

Periscope down! charting masculine sexuation in submarine films
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  • June 2014

... Focussing on the work accomplished in the Claude Glass, positioned between a looking subject and an emergent landscape, affords us with the opportunity metaphorically to understand that concepts, too, are never more than the work they accomplish. 27 In other words, the Claude Glass invites us to shift our attention from the constructedness of landscapes towards the conditions of their construction. Such a broadly structural understanding of the process of landscape generation allows for analyses of landscapes that no longer require the postulation of highly questionable subject-positions. ...

Introduction: The unconscious, transference, drives, repetition and other things tied to geography
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  • June 2014

... Further, the importance of involving ethnic minorities in the planning and programming of such festivals is evident. The NBF enabled migrant communities to control the inclusion of experiences within the event, reducing hegemonic power often evident in liberal state-sponsored multicultural policies and practices (Kingsbury, 2016). Further, by acknowledging that ethnic minorities are internally different and providing a platform for these variations to be represented, the NBF moves away from depicting a 'united front' to its audience (Fincher et al., 2014, p. 44), thus increasing the authenticity of the event. ...

Rethinking the Aesthetic Geographies of Multicultural Festivals: A Nietzschean Perspective
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  • January 2016