Alenka Zupančič
Alenka Zupančič | |
|---|---|
| Born | Template:Birth date and age[1][2] Ljubljana, Slovenia[3] |
| Nationality | Slovenian |
| Occupation | Philosopher, psychoanalytic theorist |
| Known for | Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis |
Alenka Zupančič (born 1 April 1966) is a Slovenian Lacanian philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist.[1][2][4] She is a prominent member of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis, alongside Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar.[4][5]
Biography
Alenka Zupančič graduated in philosophy from the University of Ljubljana in 1990 and received her doctoral degree in 1995.[4] She is a professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School (EGS) in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and at the University of Nova Gorica.[4][5] She also serves as a research advisor and professor at the Institute of Philosophy within the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[4]
Zupančič is on the advisory board of Philosophy and Society and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe at the University of Rijeka, Croatia.[4]
Work
Zupančič's work explores the relations between sexuality, ontology, and the unconscious; critiques of the theory of the subject; and the Lacanian concept of the Real.[4] She is renowned as a scholar of Nietzsche.[4]
She has published extensively in psychoanalytic and philosophical anthologies and journals, including Filozofski vestnik, New Formations, The American Journal of Semiology, Problemi, Razpol, Umbr(a), Lacanian Ink, Identiteti, and Parallax.[4]
Key publications
- Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan (2000): Re-examines Kantian ethics through psychoanalytic concepts, particularly the Lacanian Real, formulating "the ethics of the real."[4][5][6]
- The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two (2003): Analyzes Nietzsche's concepts of the death of God, the ascetic ideal, nihilism, and truth, emphasizing the "Noon" moment of splitting into Two as irreducible difference.[4][6]
- The Odd One In: On Comedy (2008): Examines the subversive nature of comedy in relation to philosophy and psychoanalysis, distinguishing it from ideological "cheerfulness."[4][5][6]
- Why Psychoanalysis: Three Interventions (2008): Links Kant, comedy, and psychoanalysis in a theory of the subject.[5][6]
- Other works include What is Sex? and Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax (2023).[7]
Zupančič argues that psychoanalysis reveals an "irrational" core at the heart of reason.[6] Her recent work addresses sexuality's ontological inconsistency, as per Freud, which resists fixed boundaries.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Alenka Zupančič Biography - Pantheon World". Pantheon. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Alenka Zupančič - Wikipedia". Retrieved 2026-01-31.
- ↑ "Alenka Zupančič – Landscape Architecture Platform". Retrieved 2026-01-31.
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 "Alenka Zupančič – EGS – Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical ..." European Graduate School. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Too Much of Not Enough: An Interview with Alenka Zupančič". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "12 Questions about Psychoanalysis: Answers by Alenka Zupančič". Retrieved 2026-01-31.
- ↑ "Alenka Zupančič (Author of What IS Sex?) - Goodreads". Retrieved 2026-01-31.