Lucas Ferraço Nassif

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Cinema/Television/Moving Images
Psychoanalysis/Schizoanalysis
Contemporary Art
Literature

20192025

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Personal information

Lucas Ferraço Nassif holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a researcher in the ERC project FILM AND DEATH and an integrated member of CineLab - Laboratory of Cinema and Philosophy, part of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, and a member of the Portuguese Center of Psychoanalysis. Director and editor of the films Reinforced Concrete, Being Boring, and Unfamiliar Ceiling/The Beast; and author of the book Missing Links, published by Barakunan, and awarded by the Association of Moving Image Researchers [AIM] in Portugal as the best monographic book of 2023. In 2025 his book Unconscious/Television was published by Becoming Press. Lucas Ferraço Nassif's investigations happen between psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis, operating with the clinical approach to the unconscious that aims at the entanglement of art and the production of thought.

Research interests

Cinema; Psychoanalysis; Schizoanalysis; Literature; Contemporary Art.

Education/Academic qualification

Literature, Doctorate, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

… → 2020

External positions

Psychoanalyst, Centro Português de Psicanálise