Fornægtelse - En psykoanalyse af nutidens sociale reaktion på traumatiske og foruroligende begivenhe

by Alenka Zupančič

Den slovenske professor i filosofi og psykoanalyse Alenka Zupančič foretager i “Fornægtelse” en psykoanalyse af en af vores samtids mest besynderlige reaktioner: vi benægter ikke de traumatiske og foruroligende begivenheder, der finder sted omkring os, vi fortsætter ufortrødent, velvidende, at det er mod afgrunden. Zupančič tager med vid og humor fat på konspirationsteorier, fake news, klimaforandringer og de ildevarslende tektoniske skift i vores sociale bindevæv.

Imodsætning til benægtelse og negation fungerer fornægtelse ved fuldt ud at anerkende det, vi fornægter, efter den generelle formel: “Jeg ved det godt, men det ændrer ingenting”.

148 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2024

About the author

Alenka Zupančič is a Slovenian philosopher whose work focuses on psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.

Born in Ljubljana, Zupančič graduated at the University of Ljubljana in 1990. She is currently a full-time researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a visiting professor at the European Graduate School. Zupančič belongs to the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, which is known for its predominantly Lacanian foundations. Her philosophy was strongly influenced by Slovenian Lacanian scholars, especially Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Žižek.

Zupančič has written on several topics including ethics, literature, comedy, love and other topics. She is most renowned as a Nietzsche scholar, but Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Bergson and Alain Badiou are also referenced in her work.