Monograph
Brenner, L. S. (2020). The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language. Palgrave Macmillan. <ISBN 978-3-030-50714-5>
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Brenner, L. S. (2025). Falling in Love with Lacan and Badiou: Sex, Love and Subjectivity. Springer.
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Brenner, L. S. (2026). “Formation of the Analyst and the Logic of the Act”, Lacunae, 29: 10-25, 2026. <DOI>
Brenner, L. S. (2025). “The Most Erotic Transference”, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, In Press.
Brenner, L. S. (2024). “Drive Regulation in Autism”, Analytic Agora, 2, 80-90. <Link>
Brenner, L. S. & Everit, K. (2024). “Time for Love”, RES PUBLICA. <https://doi.org/10.5209/rpub.92334>
Brenner, L. S. (2024). “To Do Justice to Freud: Foucault and Derrida in Couples Therapy with Freud”, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. < https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-023-00412-6>
Brenner, L. S. (2023). “Book Review: The Racist Fantasy by Todd McGowan”, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. <https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-023-00414-4>
Brenner, L. S. (2023). “Epistemic Harm in Empathy”, Journal of HARM, 2, 11-19. <https://doi.org/10.46586/harm.2023.11071>
Brenner, L. S. (2023). “The Autistic Pseudosignifier: Imaginary Dialectization of Signs in the Clinic of Autism”, Theory & Psychology Journal, 33(4), 535-554. <https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543231176543>
Brenner, L. S. (2022). “Autistic Disturbances in Skin Containment: The Dermic Drive as a Psychoanalytic Concept”, Psychoanalytic Psychology, 39(3), 198–208. <https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000400>
Brenner, L. S. (2022). “Autistic Rims and Their Vicissitudes”, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, 9(1). <Link>
Brenner, L. S. (2021). “The Mirror in the Real: Autistic Identification in Lacan’s Mirror Stage”, Theory & Psychology Journal, 31(6). <https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211034569>
Brenner, L. S. (2020). “Autism is not Psychosis: A Case for the Singularity of Autistic Foreclosure”, Lacunae, 20: 10-42, 2020. <Link>
Brenner, L. S. (2019). “Creative Hyper-Activation in Depression”, Journal of Creativity Research, 31(4), 359-370, 2019. <https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2019.1658463>
Edited Volumes
Brenner, L. S. (2025). “Love from one to Two to One” in: Reading Seminar VIII (Ed. Carol Owen). Routledge. In Press.
Brenner, L. S. (2025). “The Form and Matter of Hallucinations in Schreber’s Message Phenomena”, in:Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy (Ed. E. Watson & H. Texier). Routledge. <ISBN:9781032663678>
Brenner, L. S. (2025). “From Death to Love: The Transformative Event in Paul’s Christian Discourse”, in: Death and Love (Ed. Julie Reshe, Todd McGowan), Routledge. <ISBN: 9781032663425>
Brenner, L. S. (2024). “The Skin as the Source of the Dermic Drive: Modes of Dermic Punctuation in the Containment of Meaning”, in: Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (Ed. E. Watson & D. Colins), Routledge. <ISBN:9781032292496>
Brenner, L. S. (2023). “Negation beyond Neurosis”, in: Negativity in Psychoanalysis
Theory and Clinic (Ed. D. Rousselle, M. G. Murphy), Routledge. <ISBN:9781003375920>
Brenner, L. S. (2022). “Excessive Creativity in Melancholic Depression”, in: Lacan on Depression and Melancholia (Ed. D. Hook, S. Vanheule), Routledge. <ISBN:9781032106533>
Brenner, L. S. (2021). “The Autistic Body with no Organs”, in: The Body in Theory
Essays After Lacan and Foucault (Ed. B. McLaughlin, E. Daffron), McFarland and Company. <ISBN:1476678553>.
Journals
Brenner, L.S. (2024). “Against Reality”, Sublation Magazine, 2024. In press.
Brenner, L. S. (2023). “I Will Have Finished Tomorrow: The Harsh reality of the Human Sexual Function”, RISS Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, 99: 54-56, 2023.
Brenner, L.S. (2023). “Psychoanalysis of the Whale”, Sublation Magazine, 2023. <Link>
Brenner, L. S. (2018). “A conversation on what philosophy can tell us about politics today”, Interview by Sokol Ferizi. Stillpoint Magazine, ARCHIVE: 000. <https://stillpointmag.org/articles/political-truth-in-the-age-of-populism/>
Conference Papers
Brenner, L. S. (02/26), “Who Pays for Analysis”, Conference: The analysis of the money and the money of the analysis, Artel de la Recherche Psychanalytique, Russia.
Brenner, L. S. (10/24), “Skin Punctuation in Autism”, Conference: The vulnerable skin: psychoanalytic perspectives on autism”, department of philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Brenner, L. S. (05/24). “Autism and (m)Others“, Autism Seminar, Psychoanalytic Institue for Social Research, Rome, Italy.
Brenner, L. S. (05/24). “The Return of the Mother Tongue: Birth Trauma in Rank and Lacan”, Rank Horror Symposium, Columbia University, U.S.A.
Brenner, L. S. (11/23). “Autie-biorgraphies as a Clinical Case Study”, APPI Congress 2023 – Returning to The Clinical Case Study, Dublin.
Brenner, L. S. (09/23). “The Skin as the Source of the Dermic Drive”, SIPP 2023 Conference, University of Nikosia, Cyprus.
Brenner, L. S. (04/23). “Subject and Other: Modes of Dermic Punctuation”, Lack conference, University of Vermont, U.S.A.
Brenner, L. S. (03/23). “Psychic Skins and Mental Boundaries in Psychoanalysis”, 36. Symposion zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse, International Psychoanalytic University (IPU), Berlin.
Brenner, L. S. (10/22). Poster presentation: “The Dermic Drive: The Skin and the Signifier”, Lacan: Clinic and Culture, Duquesne University, Pittsburg, U.S.A.
Brenner, L. S. (06/22). “Autobiographobia: The Autie-biography as Body-Event”, The Case, ICI Berlin.
Brenner, L. S. (06/22). “Against the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis”, Prelude to the Empathy & Society Colloquium, Ruhr Universität Bochum.
Brenner, L. S. (10/21). “The Autistic Pseudo-Signifier”, Assembling Milieus, ICI Berlin.
Brenner, L. S. (07/21). “Tackling the Twice”, Panel Speaker, ISPSO AM2021 Conference Berlin.
Brenner, L. S. (05/21). “The Autistic Body”, NLS International Conference Ghent.
Brenner, L. S. (04/20). “Autism as a Mode of Being”, Keynote Speaker, The Freud Lacan Institute (FLi), Dublin, ’Different Not Less’: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Autism Conference. Conference cancelled due to COVID-19.
Brenner, L. S. (10/19). “The Mirror in the Real: Autistic Identification in the Mirror Stage”, Duquesne University, Pittsburg, U.S.A., Écrits International Conference.
Brenner, L. S. (09/19). “Vicissitudes of Identification in Populism”, Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times.
Brenner, L. S. (07/18). “The Autistic ‘Symbolic Spectrum’”, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Literatur & Philosophie – Kritik heute! Colloquium.
Brenner, L. S. (03/18). “Lacan and the Dream of the Burning Child”, UdK Berlin, Art In Context Now.
Brenner, L. S. (10/17). “The Language of Perception: Spatial Pathology in Autism Explained by a Structural Linguistic Model”, Humboldt University School of Mind and Brain, Berlin, Workshop for Enactive Psychiatry & (Psycho)Therapy.
Brenner, L. S. (12/16). “‘Sexuation and Infinity’ : ‘Virtual’ and ‘Actual’ Universality in Contemporary Feminist Ethics“, National University of Ireland, Galway, International SWIP-Ireland Conference.
Brenner, L. S. (06/16). “Practical Social Impact Through the Investigation of Autism in Philosophical Terms”, Bar-Ilan University Conference for the Humanities and Social Science.
Brenner, L. S. (05/16). “‘L’envers du Documentaire’ : Analytical Ethics in Documentary Film”, Haifa University International Conference on Documentary Ethics: Past Present Future – Ethical Creativity, Commitment and Criticism in Documentary Cinema and Filmmaking.
Brenner, L. S. (04/16). “The Essentiality of the Humanities to the Understanding of the Essence of Autism”, Utrecht University International Conference on the Humanities and Practical Self- understanding.
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