“The universal itself is precisely as idiotic as its concrete and individual appearance.” Alenka Zupančič, The Odd One In: On Comedy In Absolute Recoil, Slavoj Žižek offers a Lacanian reading of two Hegelian figures of moral consciousness in the Phenomenology of Spirit, the “Beautiful Soul” and the “Law of the Heart,” criticizing Lacan’s condensation of …
Philosophical discourse has traditionally framed knowledge through a masculinized logic—often at the expense of recognizing feminine subjectivity or difference. Luce Irigaray confronts this tradition by rethinking the conditions under which knowledge is produced and meaning constructed. Through her engagement with psychoanalysis, ontology, and language, she reveals how the structures of Western thought—particularly rationalism and the …
Introduction In this essay, I aim to present a comparison of Jacques Lacan’s and Julia Kristeva’s accounts of the subject’s entrance into the Symbolic order, mainly focusing on Lacan’s concept of the mirror stage and Kristeva’s distinction between the Semiotic and the Symbolic. I elaborate on the Kristevan theoretical framework, structured around her pivotal concepts …
Fragility is inherent in rigidity, as even the most rigid structures are always fragile—yet fragility transcends conceptual rigidity. It embraces an irreducible ontological excess, challenging dominant discourses with its bold closeness to nothingness.
The co-existence of agents is obfuscated by the scientific worldview, which led to the material world in which the agency of all the entities has been made to vanish: Latour calls this “a zombie atmosphere” in which “nothing happens anymore since the agent is supposed to be ‘simply caused’ by its predecessor. All the action …
