Psychoanalyst

Meera Lee is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan, New York City. Her practice offers psychoanalysis in the Lacanian orientation, with particular emphasis on speech, the structure of desire, and the singular logic of the symptom. She works with individuals engaged in psychoanalysis and also provides clinical supervision and consultation for analytic candidates and practicing clinicians.

Her clinical expertise includes love, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She works with individuals from diverse backgrounds and professions who seek psychoanalytic exploration. As a professor of Asian American Studies, Lee has particular expertise in working with Asian American individuals under the pressures of high achievement, as well as with academics, graduate students, and artists experiencing an impasse related to productivity and intellectual labor. Lee has been invited to give lectures and seminars on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan in North American and international psychoanalytic circles. She is an author and translator of works in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Lee continues her analytic formation with members of the École de la Cause Freudienne (ECF) the New Lacanian School (NLS), within what Lacan called the Freudian Field, and completed a licensure-qualifying analytic training at the National Psychological Association of Psychoanalysis (NPAP).

Lee works in English and Korean.

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Academic

Meera 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, including her most recent essay, “Love is the Delusion of Saying: ‘I Love (To) You’” in The Psychoanalytic Review (2025), Lee is the editor of Lacan’s Cruelty: Perversion Beyond Philosophy, Culture and Clinic (Palgrave Lacan Series, 2022) and the Korean translator of Jacques Lacan: The Basics (Routledge, 2024) by Calum Neill: 『라캉을 읽기 위한 기본』 (Yeondoo, 2025). Her new book, What is a Father?: Prohibition, Permission and Desire from Freud to Lacan, is currently under review with the press.

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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