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This book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our contemporary social response to traumatic and disturbing events, from climate change to unsettling tectonic shifts in our social tissue. Unlike deniali
Den slovenske professor i filosofi ogpsykoanalyse Alenka Zupani foretager i Fornægtelse en psykoanalyse af en afvores samtids mest besynderlige reaktioner: vi benægter ikke de traumatiske og foruroligendebegivenheder, der finder sted omkring os, vi fortsæ
The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'human inclination' such as love, sympathy or fear. In attempting to interpret such a revolutionary pro
A provocative , highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture. There is probably no classical text that has inspired more interpretation, cri
Why sexuality is at the point of a short circuit between ontology and epistemology. Consider sublimationconventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satis
Den menneskelige seksualitet er hverken ren biologi eller ren social konstruktion, og den er først og fremmest noget andet og mere end den kropslige aktivitet, som vi ofte forbinder den med. Ifølge den lacanianske filosof Alenka Zupani er seksualitet drev
A Lacanian look at how comedy might come to philosophy's rescue, with examples ranging from Hegel and Moliere to George W. Bush and Borat. Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalyti
Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context-examining the definitive element that animates his work. What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupancic counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a phi