Lacanian Psychoanalyst
Faculty, Asian American Studies Program, Hunter College, CUNY
Psychoanalyst
Meera is a Lacanian psychoanalyst and maintains a private practice in Manhattan, New York City. Her clinical practice ranges from general issues, such as family, relationships, school, work, grief and sexuality to clinical issues, such as depression, anxiety, mood disorders, body image, eating disorder and addiction. Bilingual and bicultural herself, Meera also has extensive experience working with immigrants, expatriates and international students. She provides clinical supervision to analytic candidates and clinicians, as well.
Meera has been invited to give lectures and seminars on Freud and Lacan in both North American and international psychoanalytic circles. In addition to her academic fields of literature and cinema, she has published books and scholarly essays in the areas of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
An analyst herself, Meera continues to develop her analytic formation with the prominent members of the ECF (École de la Cause Freudienne) and NLS (New Lacanian School), the schools dedicated to the transmission of Jacque Lacan’s teachings.
Meera is bilingual in English and Korean
Academic
Meera is on the faculty of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College, CUNY. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University. She has taught courses in Asian American studies, Korean cinema, Korean literature, postcolonial theory, and race and sexuality. In addition to these areas, her research and writing focuses on psychoanalysis (with an emphasis on Freud and Lacan), critical theory and continental philosophy.
Meera is the editor of Lacan’s Cruelty: Perversion Beyond Philosophy, Culture and Clinic (Palgrave Lacan Series, 2022) and the author of Who’s Afraid of Hemingway Men: Reconstructing Masculinity in Freud and Lacan (Seoul: Doing-In, 2006): originally titled in Korean 『누가 헤밍웨이 남성을 두려워 하는가』. Her academic writings have appeared in positions: asia critique, Verge: Global Asias, Telos, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, Tamkang Review, and 21st Century Literature 「21세기 문학」, as well as an edited book Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Žižek.
Meera’s Korean translation of the book, Jacques Lacan: The Basics (Routledge, 2024) by Calum Neil is forthcoming from Yeondoo Press, Korea (2025). She is completing a monograph, tentatively titled, What is a Father? Essays on the Superego from Freud to Lacan.
Meera received her Ph.D. in English from Dankook University, Seoul and was a postdoctoral fellow in the English Department and the Humanities Center at Syracuse University. While at Syracuse, from 2013-2017, she was co-principal investigator and project director of the Syracuse University & Cornell University Faculty Working Group (with Professors Emeriti Brett de Bary and Naoki Sakai of Cornell) on the workshop series "Critical Theory and the Global: The Politics of Translation," funded by the Central New York Mellon Humanities Corridor.