Alenka Zupančič (born 1 April 1966) is a Slovenian

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whose work focuses on psychoanalysis and

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. She is a Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist and philosopher who along with

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and

Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek (, ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New Y ...

have in large measure been responsible for the popularity in North America (and Europe) of a politically infused Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Academics and work

Born in Ljubljana, Zupančič graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1990 and received her doctorate in 1995 with a dissertation titled ''Dejanje in zakon, nezavedno in pojem''. Zupančič went on to receive a second doctorate from the

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under Alain Badiou in 1997. She is currently 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.Alenka Zupančič
Faculty page at European Graduate School. Biography and bibliography. Accessed: May 1, 2010. Zupančič belongs to the

Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis ( sl, Ljubljanska psihoanalitska šola or ), also known as the Ljubljana Lacanian School ( sl, Ljubljanska lakanovska šola) is a popular name for a school of thought centred on the Society for Theoretical Psychoa ...

, which is known for its predominantly

Lacanian Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, , ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and pu ...

foundations. Her philosophy is strongly influenced by Slovenian Lacanian scholars, especially

and

. Zupančič has written on several topics including ethics, literature, comedy, and love. She is most renowned as a Nietzsche scholar, but Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014, from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-Bergson

and Alain Badiou are also referenced in her work. She has many videos on YouTube where she talks about her work and the topics. She has also a Facebook page. There are videos of her and her lectures on the European Graduate School website. She has 242 works in 305 publications in 6 languages and 3,558 library holdings.

Bibliography

Alenka Zupančič EGS Faculty Page (Biography & Works)

References

External links

Alenka Zupančič
Faculty page at European Graduate School. Biography and bibliography.
Alenka Zupančič
Profile at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Biography and bibliography. * Steven Michels
'Nietzsche, Interrupted: A review of Alenka Zupancic, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two'
In: Lacan.com. * Adam Atkinson
The Odd One In: On Comedy by Alenka Zupančič.
In: Media Culture Reviews. 1966 births Living people University of Ljubljana alumni Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana Academic staff of European Graduate School Slovenian women philosophers Slovenian expatriates in Switzerland Continental philosophers 21st-century Slovenian philosophers {{philosopher-stub