Biography

Working with medieval philosophy is a “practice of the letter” (J. Lacan). My doctoral research concerns the concept of resistance as it was developed by medieval commentators in the 13^th and 14^th centuries. Taken up from Aristotle’s Physics, the term of ‘resistance’ will be interrogated by medieval authors in the fields of ethics, psychology and even metaphysics. I am interested in the metonymic displacement produced by this series of translations and interpretations.

In my proseminars at the University of Fribourg, I seek to awaken this taste for textual work with students. We follow the texts with close reading, exploring their argumentative structure while also tracing the development of concepts in their respective discursive fields. I have a particular interest in supporting the questions, always more personal than one first thinks, that each one brings to their philosophical reading.

In addition to my involvement in the university, I pursue this ‘practice of the letter’ in the psychoanalytic community in Switzerland. Friend of the ASREEP-NLS since 2022 and currently member and secretary of the association, I am also one of the animators of the CIEN in Fribourg. Last but not least, I participate at the clinical section in Lyon (UFORCA).

“Nam physica natura interpretatur.” (Thierry of Chartres)

Contact : james.fisher@unifr.ch