Theocharis Raptis obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University (2011), where he is currently teaching philosophy and aesthetics of the media. He taught at the same Department psychological and psychoanalytic theories of the media (during the period 2015-2021) as well as natural and formal languages of communication (between 2018-2021) in undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
His research interests centre on Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, literary theory, media theory, and their interconnections.
He is a member of the editorial board of the Greek journal for psychoanalysis, philosophy and the arts αληthεια (Athens, Patakis Editions).
- In 2010, he co-edited (with Assistant Professor of the Department Dionyssis Kavvathas) the special issue of the journal on “Psychoanalysis and Theories of the Media” (αληthεια 4-5: 13-262).
- He is the author of the monograph Poe–Lacan–Derrida: Interconnections (Athens, Smili Publications, 2013).
- Together with D. Kavvathas, he co-edited and co-authored the introduction to the translation in Greek of Samuel Weber’s book Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan’s Dislocation of Psychoanalysis (1990) (Athens, Smili Publications, 2021).
- He is co-editor (with D. Kavvathas) of the series «Philosophy and Aesthetics of the Media» (Smili Publications).
- “Derrida, Lacan and the Question of the Animal,” Axiologika 29, Spring 2015: 61-87.
- “From the Freudian Oedipus to the Lacanian Phallus and Beyond: The objet α
as a Desiring-Machine,” Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy, ed. C. V. Boundas, London, Bloomsbury Press, 2018: 163-177. - The aesthethics of psychoanalysis,” aletheia 10, Automn 2019: 84-101.
His interests are not limited to the sphere of academia. After his university studies, he followed (between 2014-2016) the programme in counselling and
psychotherapy of the University of East London.
He is a practicing psychotherapist.
He continues his training in the Lacanian orientation of psychoanalysis at the Centre f Psychoanalytic Studies of Athens.
He is a member of the Borromean Knot Society of the New Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in Greece.
