Darian Leader

Works

Books

• Lacan for Beginners, 1995, later editions with a changed title: Introducing Lacan
• Why Do Women Write More Letters Than they Post?, 1996
• Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late, 1997
• Freud's Footnotes, 2000
• Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us from Seeing, 2002
• Why Do People Get Ill? Exploring the Mind-Body-Connection, 2007
• The New Black. Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, 2008
• What Is Madness?, 2011
• Strictly Bipolar, 2013
• Hands: What We Do With Them – and Why, 2016
• Why Can't We Sleep?, 2019

  Essays

• 1998 'A Response to the Photographs.' In Henry Bond The Cult of the Street.
• 1988 'Entries on psychoanalysis.' In "Fontana Dictionary of Modern Though".
• 1990 'Trahison ou Traduction du Trait Pervers'. In "Navarin".
• 1997 Phantasy in Klein and Lacan.' In "The Klein-Lacan Dialogues"
• 1998 Lacan’s Schema L, in 'Mapping the Soul, Models and Schemas in Psychoanalysis"
• 1998 'Beating Phantasies and Sexuation' in "Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference"
• 2000 'Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams', in "Waterstone’s Guide to Literature", London, pp. 32–36.
• 2003 'Lacan’s Myths', in Jean-Michel Rabate, ed, "'The Cambridge Companion to Lacan'",, pp. 35–49.
• 2004 'Can there be a monopoly on psychoanalysis?' in "'Who Owns Psychoanalysis?'", ed Ann Casement, London, Karnac Books.

  Art Essays

• 1998 'A Response to the Photographs' in Henry Bond, The Cult of the Street, Emily Tsingou Gallery, np.
• 1999 'Body Swap', Marc Quinn, Hannover Kunstverein, np.
• 2000 'Sculpture Between the Living and the Dead', in Marc Quinn, Milan, Prada Foundation, pp. 14–19.
• 2002 'Animals Looking Sideways', in Olivier Richon, Royal College of Art.
• 2002 'Eva Hesse', Tate Magazine, 2, pp. 78–81.
• 2002 'The System of Rodney Grahams Costume Trilogy', in Rodney Graham, London, Whitechapel Gallery, pp. 35–43.
• 2002 'Stealing the Mona Lisa, What Art Stops Us from Seeing', London, Faber and Faber.
• 2003 'Out of Place', Art Review, 54, pp. 66–8.
• 2003 'Elastic Band Reality', Modern Painters, 16, pp. 90–93.
• 2003 'Drawing on Space', in Antony Gormley, Domain Field, Gateshead, Baltic, pp. 8–15.
• 2003 'Anya Gallaccio', Modern Painters, 19.
• 2003 'Drawing on Space in Domain Field at Winchester: Antony Gormley', Winchester, Hampshire Sculpture Trust, pp. 8–15
• 2003 'Some Thoughts on Greenbergs Abstract, Representational, and So Forth', in Transmission, Speaking and Listening, ed Sharon Kivland and Lesley Sanderson, Sheffield Hallam University, pp. 15–21.
• 2004 'Drawing in Space' in Antony Gormley, Making Space, Gateshead, Baltic, pp. 57–76
• 2004 'What Turns Something into Something Else?' in Marc Quinn, Flesh, Irish Museum of Modern Art, pp.xi-xiv.
• 2005 'The Double Life of Objects' in Cornelia Parker, Perpetual Canon, Stuttgart, Kerber Verlag, pp. 72–7.
• 2005 'Sophy Rickett', Portfolio, 41, pp. 22–26.
• 2005 'The Information', in Nigel Cooke, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
• 2006 'Primal Scene Photography', in Bettina von Zwehl, Steidl/Photoworks
• 2006 'The Architecture of Life', in Jane and Louise Wilson: Sealander, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
• 2006 'Polymorphous Perverse: Tim Noble and Sue Webster', Time Out, 12 December
• 2007 'Chop Chop', in Loukia Alavanou, Haas and Fischer, Zurich
• 2008 'Life Painting' in Ed Cohen, Jeannie Freilich Gallery, New York
• 2008 'Freudian Tales' in Alice Anderson, Artprojex, London
• 2009 'Assault on the Egg' in Enrico David, Basel Kunstverein
• 2009 'The Blank Page', in This is not a book about Gavin Turk, London, White Cube
• 2009 'In Conversation with Jeff McMillan', The Possibility of an Island, Peer Gallery, London
• 2009 'In Conversation with the Turner Prize artists', Tate Etc, forthcoming
• 2009 'Forms of Attachment' in Martin Creed, Works, Thames and Hudson, London
• 2010 On Antony Gormley, 'Being a Part of It', in Antony Gormley, 'One and Other', Jonathan Cape, London, pp. 312–7.
• 2010 On Dawn Woolley, 'Cut-Outs', in 'Cut to the Measure of Desire', Cardiff n.p.
• 2010 On Christian Marclay, 'Glue', in 'The Clock', White Cube, London n.p.
• 2010 On Anish Kapoor, 'Turning the World Upside Down', in 'Turning the World Upside Down', Serpentine Gallery.
• 2013 On Andrew Grassie, 'Looper', The Rennie Collection, Vancouver
• 2016 On Nigel Cooke, 'Darian Leader in conversation with Nigel Cooke', Phaidon Press, London.