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This essay reconsiders the distinction between tragic heroes and tragic heroines through Walter Benjamin's account of fate, guilt, and speechlessness. Reading Sophocles' Oedipus and Antigone , Aeschylus' Agamemnon , and Euripides' Medea , it argues that male heroes articulate the tragic dimension through the nexus of desire and guilt, while female figures like Antigone and Medea enact a refusal of the \"forced choice\" that binds desire to guilt. Their acts mark a different ontology of the tragic—one in which desire and negation coincide. In contrast to the heroes' loss, heroines embody the point where desire itself appears as the sign, and embodiment, of a lack of being.

This article deals with the way in which Michel Foucault first introduced the notion of 'biopolitics' through the referential frame of sexuality and psychoanalysis. It focuses on the concept that is utterly and conspicuously missing from Foucault's account, in The History of Sexuality , of the psychoanalytic take on sexuality - namely, the unconscious. It argues that this omission has important and far-reaching consequences for the (Foucauldian) concept of biopolitics as such.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Alenka Zupančič engages with a number of important themes that animate her current work. Randall Terada begins by asking her first to address the striking connections in her work between sexuality, ontology, and the unconscious. Zupančič then moves on to the Lacanian theme of subjective destitution and her differences with Alain Badiou’s theory of the subject. She highlights her most recent work on Kant and offers a subtle critique of Emmanuel Levinas and Jean Laplanche. Zupančič lightens up the discussion somewhat by detailing an Ernst Lubitsch joke to illustrate the significance of the with-without for her Lacanian inspired ontology and in doing so points out why the sexes are not two in any meaningful way. Finally, the discussion closes with a candid and accessible commentary on being, multiplicity, and the One and its importance for a politics that is emphatic in its emphasis that it not take “nothing” or “non-being” for granted.

Responding to the ongoing \"objectal turn\" in contemporary humanities and social sciences, the essays inSubject Lessons present a sustained case for the continued importance- indeed, the indispensability-of the category of the subject for the future of materialist thought. Approaching matters through the frame of Hegel and Lacan, the contributors to this volume, including the editors, as well as Andrew Cole, Mladen Dolar, Nathan Gorelick, Adrian Johnston, Todd McGowan, Borna Radnik, Molly Anne Rothenberg, Kathryn Van Wert, and Alenka Zupancic-many of whom stand at the forefront of contemporary Hegel and Lacan scholarship-agree with neovitalist thinkers that material reality is ontologically incomplete, in a state of perpetual becoming, yet they maintain that this is the case not in spite of but, rather,because of the subject. Incorporating elements of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary and cultural studies,Subject Lessons contests the movement to dismiss the subject, arguing that there can be no truly robust materialism without accounting for the little piece of the Real that is the subject.

Since 1913, Ana Župančič has been intensively monitoring the work of her husband Oton Župančič. This was the time of creating songs that were published in the collections V zarje Vidove (1920) and Zimzelen pod snegom (1945). Ani wrote her observations, thoughts and opinions in 1963–1966. Part of the notes was published in the book Spomini na Otona (2019), and here are corrections, comments and additions to Ana Župančič, especially to the third book of Zbranega dela.

The focus of this chapter is exclusively on Sigmund Freud’s discoveries and theoretical propositions and on Jacques Lacan’s ‘return to Freud’ in his stunning enterprise, in which he cast psychoanalysis on the centre stage of contemporary philosophical debate. The presentation of the theoretical insights of Freud and Lacan follows the thread of two major concepts, that of the unconscious and that of the drive (or sexuality), while trying to indicate the way in which other crucial concepts enter into their scope or follow from them. From the very beginning, psychoanalysis was surrounded by debates about whether its scope lay more

The contribution presents the factual data about the birth and death of Slavica (Ignacija), the first child in the Zupancic family from Dragatus, who has been long overlooked by the biographers of Oton Zupancic. The article thus refutes some of the hitherto established biographical data on the poet and his family. It also suggests the impact that the loss of the girl may have had on the second-born poet Zupancic.