Psychoanalyst

Lee is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan, New York City. Bilingual herself, and as a professor and scholar, she has extensive experience working with Asian Americans, international Asian students, and queer/transgender, as well as with academics, graduate students and artists. Her primary areas of specialization include relationship issues, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She also provides clinical supervision to analytic candidates and clinicians.

Lee has been invited to give lectures and seminars on Freud and Lacan in both North American and international psychoanalytic circles. In addition to her work in the fields of Asian/Asian American Studies and Korean cinema, she has published and translated books and scholarly essays on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

As an analyst, Lee 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 the teachings of Jacques Lacan.

Lee is bilingual in English and Korean, and works in both languages.

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Academic

Lee 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 Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.

In addition to numerous academic writings on literature, film and psychoanalysis, Lee is the editor of Lacan’s Cruelty: Perversion Beyond Philosophy, Culture and Clinic (Palgrave Lacan Series) and the author of Who’s Afraid of Hemingway Men: Reconstructing Masculinity in Freud and Lacan (Seoul: Doing-In): originally titled in Korean 『누가 헤밍웨이 남성을 두려워 하는가』.

Lee’s forthcoming Korean translation of Jacques Lacan: The Basics (Routledge, 2024) by Calum Neil, titled 『자크 라캉: 기본』 is scheduled for publication by Yeondoo Press, Korea in 2025. She is currently completing a monograph, tentatively titled What is a Father? Essays on the Superego from Freud to Lacan.

Lee 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, she was co-principal investigator and project director of the Syracuse & Cornell 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.

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