Politics and Psychoanalysis in the Times of the Generalized Metonymization

Authors

  • Jelica Šumič Riha

Abstract

In this essay I propose to explore the status of the not all in politics and psychoanalysis by analyzing and bringing into question the seemingly self-evident relationship of the mutual exclusion between politics and psychoanalysis. I would argue that in order to expose an affinity in dealing with the ‘not all’ in politics and psychoanalysis, it is necessary to move beyond the traditionally hostile polarities of the singular and the universal and to reverse the usual perspective according to which there is no passage between the domain of the singular and the domain of the universal. I then move on to considering the relationship between psychoanalysis and politics from the point of view of the community ‘for all’ constituted through a complex practice of disidentification and the production of the ‘whatever’ singularities.

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Author Biography

Jelica Šumič Riha

Jelica Šumič Riha is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nova Gorica and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, SRC SASA, Ljubljana. She has published a number of philosophical works, including Politik der Wahrheit, with Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, and Rado Riha, ed. Rado Riha, (Turia + Kant, Vienna 1997); she has edited and contributed to an anthology on Universel, Singulier, Sujet, with Alain Badiou, et al. (Paris, Kimé, 2000), and Mutations of Ethics (Založba ZRC, 2002). She is currently working on a forthcoming volume on Volonté et désir (Harmattan, Paris, 2012), as well as on Ethics of Silence (Založba ZRC, 2012).

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Published

2012-09-05

How to Cite

Šumič Riha, J. (2012). Politics and Psychoanalysis in the Times of the Generalized Metonymization. Filozofski Vestnik, 32(2). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3234

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 2 (2011): Les Politiques du Temp / Politics of the Times

Section

Politique et psychanalyse / Politics and Psychoanalysis

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