Санитарна енигма

by Jasna Koteska, Јасна Котеска

"The number of mentally disturbed people is growing, they are multiplying every day, you won’t be to keep them on antidepressants for long."

The publishing house Antolog is proud to announce a new study by the masterful Macedonian writer and philosopher, Jasna Koteska.

Is sanitation a power; does power have a sanitary source? Who is the economist who manages the territory of the cleanliness? What is the name of the doctor who heals the wound by polluting it? What is the connection between soap and fascism? Why every colonial empire first establishes itself as a hygienic empire? What solution for the treatment of "pure" blood did Disney offer to modern television war moguls? When and why was the garbage criminalized? Why is the modern city born out of the dispute with the animal, invigorating impulses? Why does joy mean intimacy and mire? How are sexuality and sanitation interrelated? Why there is no desire which is tailored to satisfy to repressions of culture? Which dream did Freud refuse to interpret and why? Is there an empty subject and what is the content of its substance?

These are some of the questions that Sanitary Enigma raises. Jasna Koteska is the author of tens books on Sigmund Freud, Soren Kierkegaard, communism, sanitation, and has published over 200 academic studies, translated into over 12 languages.

290 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 2020

About the author

Jasna Koteska (1970, Skopje) is a Macedonian writer, philosopher, and Full Professor in humanities at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She is author of 12 books (five in Macedonian) on Sigmund Freud, Søren Kierkegaard, communism, and sanitation, published in Washington, Toronto, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Sofia and Skopje, including the newest Kierkegaard on Consumerism (2016), as well as The Freud Reader (2013), Communist Intimacy (2008), and Sanitary Enigma (2006 and 2020). Her book Communist Intimacy (2014) made it on to the European Society (Berlin, Paris) of Author's Finnegan's List of 30 books for 2015. Her book Kierkegaard on Consumerism (2016) received a 2017 state award "Gotse Delchev" for outstanding contribution in the field of science in the interest of the Republic of Macedonia. She is editor of series Collection Aut for Trinity College Toronto and CERI-SK Ljubljana. She is coordinator of the study circle on Futures of Education for the Nordic Summer University (2021-2023).