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Lucas Ferraço Nassif holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a researcher in the European Research Council 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.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Lucas Ferraço Nassif Ferreira dos Santos

Citation names

  • Ferraço Nassif, Lucas

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
391D-0E1B-0D09
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8761-1845

Email addresses

  • lfnassif@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
  • Humanities - Arts

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
German Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/06/16
Concluded
Literature, Culture and Contemporaneity (Doutoramento)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
Concluded
Architecture (Mestrado)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
Concluded
Communication Sciences (Graduado)
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011
Concluded
Further Studies in Visual Arts (Outros)
Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Brazil
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/03/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2013 - 2014 Science and Technology Management Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa Centro de Memória e Informação, Brazil

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020 - Current Psychoanalyst Lucas Ferraço Nassif: private practice: Psychoanalysis, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/06/01 - Current FILM AND DEATH - Film - Philosophy as a Meditation on Death
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
European Research Council
Ongoing
2019 - 2020 Language, Perspectivism, Translation: how to take seriously what one does not understand
PhD Student Fellow
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017 - 2020 Inside/Outside: On Inclusion and Exclusion
PhD Student Fellow
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016 - 2018 Language As Form of Life and Perspectivism: Translation and Becoming
PhD Student Fellow
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013 - 2015 Minimalism, Post-Minimalism and Contemporary Spacial Imagination
Master Student Fellow
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013 - 2013 The Objects' Drama
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Other

Designation Funders
2014 - 2017 Affects, Relations, Encounters
Researcher
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011 - 2014 Scenes From the Common
Researcher
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. Unconscious/Television. Berlin, Germany: Becoming Press. 2025.
    Published
  2. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. Missing Links: A Book in Ten Sessions. London, United Kingdom: Barakunan UK. 2023.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. "Trans-crypt: The Becomings of Unconscious/Television". In Unconscious/Television. Becoming Press, 2025.
Exhibition catalog
  1. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. (In)possibles. 2012.
Journal article
  1. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. "Metallic Affects in Hiroshima mon amour: The Unconscious via Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari". Alea: Estudos Neolatinos (2025): https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/alea/2860.
    Open access • Accepted
  2. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. "Time, Silence: To Sing a Song in Your Head". Convocarte (2020): http://cieba.belasartes.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Convocarte9.pdf.
  3. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. Corresponding author: Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. "Unfamiliar Ceiling / THE BEAST". Diacritics 46 3 (2019): https://www.diacriticsjournal.com/lucasferraconassif/.
  4. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. "The Difficult of Saying No". Revista ECO-Pós (2016): https://revistaecopos.eco.ufrj.br/eco_pos/article/view/3759/4014.
  5. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. "Rabbits: Human Technology and Material Technology". Poiésis (2016): https://periodicos.uff.br/poiesis/article/view/22780/13355.
  6. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. "It Is Not: First Questions on Peter Eisenman and Conceptual Architecture". Revista A! (2016): https://mundosdaarte.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/54-75.pdf.
  7. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. "Architecture-politics". Vitruvius (2015): https://vitruvius.com.br/revistas/read/arquitextos/16.183/5649.
  8. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. "The Body and The Writing". Laika (2014): https://www.revistas.usp.br/revistalaika/article/view/137185.
  9. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. "Cinema, Character, Importance". Revista ECO-Pós (2012): https://revistaecopos.eco.ufrj.br/eco_pos/article/view/1198/1137.
Journal issue
  1. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas; Susana Viegas; Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco. "Anime and Philosophy". Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 16 (2024): https://cinema.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/revista/issue/view/16.
    Published
Online resource
  1. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. Video: Unconscious/Television (2025) Book Launch at Linha de Sombra, Lisbon. 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjL0NcmoIzw&t=1552s.
  2. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. Touching Base #1: Christian Eschatology of A.I. In conversation with Giorgi Vachnadze, Lucas Ferraço Nassif and Palais Sinclaire. 2025. https://becoming.press/touching-base-1-christian-eschatology-of-artificial-intelligence-with-giorgi-vachnadze,-lucas-ferraço-nassif-and-palais-sinclaire.
  3. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. Video: Gazing into the Flames of Anamorphosis by Palais Sinclaire at Open Secret, Lisbon. With the participation of Lucas Ferraço Nassif. 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auX5SuV8uzg.
  4. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. Correspondence with Salomé Lamas about Gold and Ashes. 2024. https://salomelamas.info/OURO-E-CINZA-1.
  5. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. Video: Where the Desertshore Was, There Should Be the Crypt. 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fujOMm9eQ8A&t=2548s.
  6. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. Blades. 2023. https://www.on-dizziness.com/resources-overview/blades.
  7. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. Video: Introduction to the event Breathing and The Unconscious. 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBRS5C0J6Bc&t=276s.
  8. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. Video: Reading group on Žižek’s Lacrimae Rerum. 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7lhQdhW410&t=232s.
  9. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. She Makes Films Because She Makes Films, Because She Makes Films. 2018. https://www.revistaensaia.com/ela-faz-filmes-porque-faz-filmes.
Preface / Postscript
  1. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas. "Reachable Unconscious". Postscript to Gold and Ashes - by Salomé Lamas. 2025.
    Published

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Being Boring. 2016.
  2. Reinforced Concrete. 2013.

Other

Other output
  1. Interview with Thomas Lamarre. 2024. Lucas Ferraço Nassif; Susana Viegas. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/36e2c679-4508-42b0-9e4f-10d716cbd0b2.
  2. Anime’s Thinking Images. Philosophical Crossroads. 2024. Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco; Susana Viegas; Lucas Ferraço Nassif. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/dfa0b8cb-b34e-426d-be1c-621d050ab871.
  3. Question to the Pritzker winner architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. book Cultura Brasileira Hoje, Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation. 2018. Ferraço Nassif, Lucas.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025 Multiplanar unconsciouses of Japanese television animation British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
2025 11 DE ABRIL | APRESENTAÇÃO DO LIVRO ‘UNCONSCIOUS/TELEVISION’ DE LUCAS FERRAÇO NASSIF APRESENTAÇÃO DO LIVRO ‘UNCONSCIOUS/TELEVISION’ DE LUCAS FERRAÇO NASSIF
Casa da Animação (Porto, Portugal)
2025 From The Body of the Angel: Transformation between Death and Rebirth in Anime Death in the Eyes: Thinking and Representing Human Disappearance in Cinema
Universidade Autonoma de Barcelona
2025 Desacelerar em tempos de desinformação e hiperconexão Cronicamente Online: Atenção em tempos de hiperconexão
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2025 Into the Wired: Lain and the Clinic of the Unconscious NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
2025 Iron Becomes Vulnerable Flesh: Conceptualizing Death-Images FILM-PHILOSOPHY Conference
2025 “MULTIPLANAR UNCONSCIOUSES: STUDYING FERENCZI’S THALASSA WITH LACAN’S SYMBOLIC AND GUATTARI’S ECOLOGY” NATURE AND ITS DISCONTENTS: International Society of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Essex University / Freud Museum
2025 Curto circuito entre o real e o imaginário
Instituto Bloom
2024/11/20 Where the Desertshore Was, There Should Be the Crypt Video of the event available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fujOMm9eQ8A&t=2547s FILM-PHIL LISBON SEMINARS
NOVA Institute of Philosophy (Portugal)
2024/10/31 The Immanent Concept of The Unconscious and Japanese Television Animation The 12th International Conference Synergies in Communication (SiC 2024)
Bucharest University
2024/07/08 Films Schizoanalyze: Subjects and Objects in Psychoanalysis and Schizoanalysis Deleuze & Guattari Studies Conference.
Delft University of Technology (Delft, Netherlands)
2024/07/01 Transformative Acts: Film-Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Schizoanalysis Film-Philosophy 2024
(Espinho, Portugal)
2024/05/17 IBERANIME: Anime e Filosofia
2024/04/27 Linguagem, representação e toxicidade 1ª Jornada de Psicanálise. Laço Analítico Escola de Psicanálise
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/01/11 Psychoanalysis and Decoloniality - Panel 2: Psychoanalysis, Decoloniality, and the Clinic The Littoral between Psychoanalysis and Cinema Conceptual Collaboration Living Borderless Research Interaction: Psychoanalysis and Decoloniality
2023 YUKIO MISHIMA, GUSTAV VON ASCHENBACH AND JACQUES LACAN: DEBATING THE COSMOS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Cinema and Philosophy Laboratory - PERMANENT SEMINAR
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022 Open your I: The Blades Angústia e Imagem Corporal
Centro Português de Psicanálise (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019 Full of Missing Links Letras Expandidas
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
2018 Rosegarden Dreams The 11th Deleuze and Guattari Conference Microrevolutions and Politics And Desire: War Machines Against Fascisms
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Campinas, Brazil)
2017 To Continue The Difficult of Saying No VII Seminário Conexões Deleuze e Cosmopolíticas e Ecologias Radicais e Nova Terra e?
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Campinas, Brazil)
2017 Description, Transcription, Transcreation Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2017 She Makes Films Because She Makes Films, Because She Makes Films I Colóquio de Tradução e Criação
Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói)
2016 Reading a Short-Story 1956 na Literatura Brasileira
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
2016 The Minor Gesture - How To Take Something Seriously? Uso Impróprio: seminários em estudos contemporâneos das artes
Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2025 - Current O acto psicanalítico e a formação do analista por Leonardo Goldberg (2025 - 2025)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
Centro Português de Psicanálise, Portugal
2024/10/01 - Current Cruzando perspetivas em Psicanálise, Ferenczi e Lacan (2024/11/01) Centro Português de Psicanálise, Portugal
2023/06 - Current Lacrimae Rerum reading group - youtube.com/watch?v=z7lhQdhW410&t=89s (2023/06)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2023 - Current Jamieson Webster: Breathing and The Unconscious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBRS5C0J6Bc (2023 - 2023) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2022 - Current Exhibition and debate on the film Adieu Lacan - with Maria Belo, Betty Milan and Richard Ledes (2022) Centro Português de Psicanálise, Portugal
2022 - Current Psychoanalysis and Cinema: exhibition and debate with Joana Lamas on Pedro Costa's Vitalina Varela (2022) Centro Português de Psicanálise, Portugal
2020 - Current On Fernand Deligny - debate with Marlon Miguel (2020) Centro Português de Psicanálise, Portugal
2025/03 - 2025/03 Organization of the event: Salomé Lamas: On Gold and Ashes: Representing Trauma and the Aesthetics of Disappearance (2025/03 - 2025/03)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2025/02 - 2025/02 THE ANIME PHILOSOPHY LAB (2025 - 2025)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2025/01/22 - 2025/01/22 OPEN SECRET SCREENING (2025/01/22 - 2025/01/22)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
2025/01/21 - 2025/01/21 BOOK DISCUSSION: UNCONSCIOUS/TELEVISION (2025)
Round table
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2025/01/20 - 2025/01/20 Launch Unconscious/Television https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjL0NcmoIzw (2025/01/20 - 2025/01/20)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Reading group The Anime Machine (2024)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Workshop Radiation and Animation - with Thomas Lamarre (2024)
Workshop
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2014 - 2015 Conferences: Brazilian Encounter of Museum-Houses; and Brazilian Encounter of Historical Gardens (2014 - 2015) Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa Centro de Memória e Informação, Brazil

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2025 - Current Presentation of current research and the book Unconscious/Television in the Center of Eastern Studies, at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
2024/06/01 - Current Jornada do CPP-ALI, Sofrimento de Expressão Somática na Perspectiva Psicanalitica
Conference
Centro Português de Psicanálise, Portugal
2025/04/24 - 2025/04/24 Participation in one lecture of Professors Valéria Cazetta's and Anelise Angeli de Carli's course -ESC5760 – Imagem e legibilidade: para abrir os olhos da história, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Culturais da EACH-USP
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2025/03/14 - 2025/03/14 Participation in one lecture of Professor Paulo Filipe Monteiro's course - Disciplina Artes da Cena Contemporânea
2025/03 - 2025/03 Book Discussion :: Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence (2024) by Giorgi Vachnadze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpMI02Yee3k&t=349s
Conference
2025 - 2025 LYNCH E O (IN)CONSCIENTE MÚLTIPLO CICLO DE CINEMA E PSICANÁLISE LYNCH E O (IN)CONSCIENTE MÚLTIPLO CICLO DE CINEMA E PSICANÁLISE
o Centro de Criação Psicanalítica, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Chair: Invisible Archives Seminário Poiésis de Arquivo
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2017 Reflexive Practices on Architecture and Situation of Street Life Nathalia Ventura Perico (Other)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015 Bangu Archeological Park Carolina Piccolo (Other)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025 - 2025 Intellèctus (1676-7640)
2023 - 2023 Journal Vorágine (2023) - Grupo de Investigación Interdisciplinario, apoyo editorial de Asociación Chilena de Fenomenología.
2022 - 2022 Revista ECO-Pós (2175-8689)
2021 - 2021 Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image (1647-8991)
2020 - 2020 Revista Metamorfose (2525-832X)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2025 - Current British Association of Film, Television and Screen S…
2023 - Current Association of Moving Image Researchers
2019 - Current Portuguese Center of Psychoanalysis Member; part of the fiscal conceal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2025/02/27 - 2025/02/28 THE ANIME PHILOSOPHY LAB NOVA FCSH

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2016 On Being Boring Multiplot Cinema

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - 2025 Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image The Anime Philosophy issue (1647-8991)
Distinctions

Award

2023 Best monographic book
Association of Moving Image Researchers, Portugal