K. Daniel Cho

Professor
Department of Education
Daniel is a philosopher. He specializes in psychoanalysis in a variety of disciplinary contexts.
Education
- Ph.D., UCLA, 2006
- M.A., Pepperdine University, 2000
- B.A., UCLA, 1999
Research, Creative, & Professional Work
- Philosophy
- Psychoanalysis
Publications
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Genius After Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
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Political Theology and Its Discontents (edited with Boštjan Nedoh). Under Contract with Bloomsbury Academic.
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Why the Group Is Mad: Introjection and Psychosis in Freud’s Group Psychology.” Filozofski vestnik (In Press).
- “Democracy beyond the Mirror: A Lacanian Perspective.” Philosophy of Education Yearbook Vol. 1 (2018): 556-569.
- “Monotheism and its Vicissitudes.” Theory and Event. 21:4 (2018): 804-821.
- “Objects in the Mirror: Cultural Studies and the Function of Ideology.” Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth. Frymer, B., Carlin, M., and Broughton, J., eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, (2011): 15-35.
- “When a chance came for everything to change”: Messianism and Wilderness in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Abrupt Climate Change Trilogy.” Criticism 53.1 (2011): 23-51.
- “Tumults of Utopia: Repetition and Revolution in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy.” Cultural Critique 75.1 (2010): 65-81.;
- Psychopedagogy: Freud, Lacan, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- “Adorno on Education or, Can Critical Self-Reflection Prevent the Next Auschwitz?” Historical Materialism 17.1 (2009): 74-97.
- Marcuse’s Challenge to Education (edited with Kellner, D., Lewis, T., and Pierce, C.). New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
- “Curiosity according to Psychoanalysis: Blumenberg, Freud, and the Destiny of an Affect.” New German Critique 35. 2 104 (2008): 191-205.
- “Wo es war: Psychoanalysis, Marxism, and Subjectivity.” Educational Philosophy and Theory 39.7 (2007): 703-719.;
- “Home is where the Neurosis is: A Topography of the Spatial Unconscious in Late Capitalism” (with Lewis, T.). Cultural Critique 64.1 (2006): 69-91.
- “Thantos and Civilization: Lacan, Marcuse, and the Death Drive.” Policy Futures in Education 4.1 (2006): 18-30.
- “The Persistent Life of Oppression: The Unconscious, Power, and Subjectivity” (with Lewis, T.). Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education 36.3 (2006): 313-329.
- “Teaching Abjection: A Response to the War on Terror.” Teaching Education 16.2 (2005): 103-115.
- “Lessons of Love: Psychoanalysis and Teacher/Student Love.” Educational Theory 55.1 (2005): 79-95.
- “Education and Event: Thinking Radical Pedagogy in an Era of Standardization” (with Lewis, T.). Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education 5.2: article number 62 (2005).
- “Standardization or, The Pedagogical Logic of Late Capitalism: Towards a New Ethics of Education” (with Lewis, T.). Theory, Facts and Interpretation in Educational and Social Research. Eds. B. Kozuh, R. Kahn, & A. Kozlowska. Los Angeles and Czestochowa: RODN “WOM,” (2004): 187-194.