Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupancic and Mladen Dolar
German Idealism and Psychoanalysis
Friday 20 April, 2012
6:30pm, $0/Rsvp
NYU, Deutsches Haus
42 Washington Mews
What if psychoanalysis, rethought by Lacan, offers a unique approach to the actuality of German idealism? All three interventions will elaborate different aspects of this hypothesis: the Freudian and the Hegelian unconscious; sexual difference as an ontological problem; Hegel's materialist reversal of Marx.
Alenka ZupanÄiÄ is 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. She has written extensively on psychoanalysis and philosophy. She is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two, The Odd One In: On Comedy, Why Psychoanalysis: Three Interventions.
Slavoj Žižek, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a visiting professor at a number of American Universities (Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York University, University of Michigan). He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Ljubljana studying Psychoanalysis. He also studied at the University of Paris. Slavoj Zizek is a cultural critic and philosopher who is internationally known for his innovative interpretations of Jacques Lacan. He is Author of The Indivisible Remainder; The Sublime Object of Ideology; The Metastases of Enjoyment; Looking Awry: Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture; The Plague of Fantasies and The Ticklish Subject.
Mladen Dolar, born in 1951 in Maribor, former Yugoslavia, is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, as well as Advising Researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Netherlands. His principal areas of research are psychoanalysis, modern French philosophy, German idealism and philosophy of music. He has given numerous lectures at the universities in USA and across Europe, he is the author of over hundred papers in scholarly journals and collective volumes. Apart from seven books in Slovene his book publications include most notably A Voice and Nothing More (MIT 2006, translated into five languages) and Opera's Second Death (with Slavoj Žižek, Routledge 2001). He is one of the founding members of what has become known as 'the Ljubljana Lacanian School'.
Alenka ZupanÄiÄ is 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. She has written extensively on psychoanalysis and philosophy. She is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two, The Odd One In: On Comedy, Why Psychoanalysis: Three Interventions.
Slavoj Žižek, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a visiting professor at a number of American Universities (Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York University, University of Michigan). He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Ljubljana studying Psychoanalysis. He also studied at the University of Paris. Slavoj Zizek is a cultural critic and philosopher who is internationally known for his innovative interpretations of Jacques Lacan. He is Author of The Indivisible Remainder; The Sublime Object of Ideology; The Metastases of Enjoyment; Looking Awry: Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture; The Plague of Fantasies and The Ticklish Subject.
Mladen Dolar, born in 1951 in Maribor, former Yugoslavia, is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, as well as Advising Researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Netherlands. His principal areas of research are psychoanalysis, modern French philosophy, German idealism and philosophy of music. He has given numerous lectures at the universities in USA and across Europe, he is the author of over hundred papers in scholarly journals and collective volumes. Apart from seven books in Slovene his book publications include most notably A Voice and Nothing More (MIT 2006, translated into five languages) and Opera's Second Death (with Slavoj Žižek, Routledge 2001). He is one of the founding members of what has become known as 'the Ljubljana Lacanian School'.