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Alenka Zupančič Read Bio Collapse
Alenka Zupančič Read Bio Collapse
Alenka Zupančič is a Slovene philosopher and social theorist, one of the prominent members of the "Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis." She is Research Councilor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Sciences, and a professor at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She is the author of numerous articles and many books, including Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan; The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two; Why Psychoanalysis: Three Interventions; The Odd One In: On Comedy; What is Sex?; and Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax.
Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2020
Conference and Ceremony
Zdenka Badovinac, Boris Groys, T. J. Demos, ruangrupa, Apolonija Sustersic, Alberto Toscano, Urška Jurman, Alenka Zupančič, and Dražen Dragojevič
e-flux Live
Posted: December 3, 2020
Category
Contemporary Art, Capitalism
Subjects
Worldbuilding, Post-capitalism
Igor Zabel Association
The Entire World as Our World
e-flux Announcement
Posted: December 1, 2020
Category
Capitalism, Globalization
Institution
# 33
Not-Mother: On Freud’s Verneinung
Alenka Zupančič
At first sight, and considering its length, Freud’s short essay on Verneinung looks like a fleeting comment, a short note of an observation that is mostly, and in spite of its amusing character, of a technical nature: When in analysis we hear the person utter this and that, we can conclude, with great probability, that what is at stake is this and that. 1 Freud’s most famous example is a remark made by a patient, and has since become proverbial: “You ask who this person in the dream can...
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2012
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Philosophy
Subjects
Ontology , Subjectivity, Materialism
# 32
Sexual Difference and Ontology
Alenka Zupančič
To even suggest discussing sexual difference as an ontological question might induce—not without justification—strong reluctance from both the sides of philosophy (the traditional guardian of ontological questions) and gender studies. These two “sides,” if we can call them so, share at least one reason for this reluctance, related in some way to the fact that the discussion would attempt nothing new. Traditional ontologies and traditional cosmologies were strongly reliant on sexual...
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2012
Category
Philosophy, Gender, Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Feminism
Subjects
Ontology
ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
One Divides Into Two with Slavoj Zizek, Alenka Zupancic, and Mladen Dolar
e-flux Announcement
Posted: March 15, 2011
Category
Education, Philosophy
Institution