European Journal of Psychoanalysis

Foucault

On the absence of the world, one more time; or finding the world, again (Part 2)

Zsuzsa Baross

Abstract: The essay, appearing in two parts in the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, may be read as a belated postscript to the author’s first volume On contemporaneity, after Agamben (the concept …
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Celan, Derrida, epidemic time, Foucault, Jean-Luc Nancy

On the absence of the world, one more time; or finding the world, again (Part 1)

Zsuzsa Baross

Celan, Derrida, epidemic time, Foucault, Jean-Luc Nancy

Where Does Sexuality Come From? Sex and Institution: a Knot

Enrico Redaelli

Summary:

This essay analyzes the origin of sexuality and its relationship with the institution. The issue is addressed from the perspective of psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan), anthropology (Claude …
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Butler, Foucault, Freud, Gender, Institution, Lacan, Lévi-Strauss, Nature-culture Divide, Sex, Žižek, Zupančič

Agamben, the Virus, and the Biopolitical: a Riposte [1]

Zsuzsa Baross

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The text is a philosophical critique of Agamben’s much debated response to the coronavirus pandemic and the states of emergency declared. It …
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Agamben, Bare life, Biopolitical, Deleuze, Foucault