4 documents
The Future of Authority?
Mladen Dolar
e-flux Notes
Posted: October 10, 2023
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Philosophy
Subjects
Authoritarianism
e-flux Notes
Posted: November 23, 2022
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Fascism
# 34
Hegel and Freud
Mladen Dolar
Hegel and Freud have nothing in common, it would seem; there is everything to oppose them. On the one hand: the speculative philosopher of absolute spirit whose system encompassed every sphere of being – logic, nature, and spirit – and who is reputed to be the most obscure and difficult in the entire grand philosophical tradition; on the other hand: a man of medical formation, a therapist who in all his work took clinical practice as his guideline and only gradually extended some…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2012
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Language & Linguistics
Subjects
Science, Subjectivity
# 33
One Divides into Two
Mladen Dolar
One divides into two, two doesn’t merge into one . This was an old Maoist slogan from the 1960s. Despite its air of universal truth it has become dated, and I fully realize the danger of appearing dated myself by starting in this way. Nowadays, one can recite this slogan in front of a class full of students and none will have ever heard it or have any inkling as to its bearing or its author—it’s almost like speaking Chinese. The slogan combines an ontological statement, a mathematical…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2012
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Language & Linguistics, Sexuality & Eroticism
Subjects
Subjectivity