5 documents
Science or Authority?
Alenka Zupančič
e-flux Notes
Posted: June 18, 2024
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Capitalism
Subjects
Money & Finance, Science
“A Hot Mind Over Chilly Things”: On Antigone
Alenka Zupančič
e-flux Notes
Posted: October 31, 2023
Category
Literature, Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Philosophy
Conspiracy Theory Without Theory: On Don’t Look Up
Alenka Zupančič
e-flux Notes
Posted: December 16, 2022
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Film
Subjects
Conspiracy, Apocalypse
# 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