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Love me, love my dogIn Peter Goodrich & David Carlson (eds.), Law and the postmodern mind: essays on psychoanalysis and jurisprudence, University of Michigan Press. 1998.
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19A passion for ignorance: what we choose not to know and whyPrinceton University Press. 2020.Drawing on philosophy, social and psychoanalytic theory, popular culture, and her own experience, Salecl explores how the passion for ignorance plays out in many different aspects of life today, from love, illness, trauma, and the fear of failure to genetics, forensic science, big data, and the Incel movement-and she concludes that ignorance is a complex phenomenon that can, on occasion, benefit individuals and society as a whole.
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4The Arts of War and the War of ArtsEuropean Journal of Social Theory 4 (1): 81-94. 2001.Today's society is often referred to as the era of anxiety, since people increasingly experience uncertainties in their everyday lives. This article explores first the differences between fear and anxiety. Second, with the help of Lacanian psychoanalytic definition of anxiety, some examples of psychological breakdowns in wars are analyzed. And third, the attempts of contemporary military to create anxiety-free wars are confronted with similar trends in contemporary arts which try to decrease the…Read more
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7The Spoils of Freedom. Psychoanalysis and feminism after the fall of socialismFilozofski Vestnik 17 (1). 1996.
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12The New Age of AnxietyIn Insa Härtel & Sigrid Schade (eds.), Body and representation, Leske + Budrich. pp. 107--122. 2002.
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17ChoiceProfile. 2010.Choice explores how late capitalism_s shrill exhortations to _be oneself_ can be a tyranny which only leads to ever-greater disquiet.Drawing on diverse examples ...
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55On AnxietyRoutledge. 2004.We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from 'therapy culture', the Atkins diet and child anti-depressants to gun culture and weapons of mass destruction. While Hollywood regularly cashes in on teenage anxiety through its Scream franchise, pharmaceutical companies churn out new drugs such as Paxil to combat newly diagnosed anxieties. On Anxiety takes a fascinating, psychological plunge behind the scenes of our panic stricken culture and into anxious minds, asking who and what is re…Read more
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3The rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies is one of the most frightening repercussions of the collapse of socialism. Using psychoanalytic theories of fantasy to investigate why such extremist ideologies have taken hold, Renata Salecl argues that the major social and political changes in post-communist Eastern Europe require a radical re-evaluation of notions of liberal theories of democracy. In doing so she offers a new approach to human rights and feminism grounded in her own…Read more
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84The exposure of privacy in today's cultureSocial Research: An International Quarterly 69 (1): 1-8. 2002.
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32Perversion and forensic science: fraudulent testimoniesSocial Research: An International Quarterly 78 (3): 887-906. 2011.The popular fascination with forensic science, DNA bio?banks and TV shows such as CSI have created a belief that the law can track down any criminal and that only a small sample from his or her body is needed to prove whether he or she is guilty or innocent. In recent years, however, there were a number of cases of forensic scientists tampering with DNA evidence. Psychoanalysis raises the question of whether such cases present us with individuals who derive a perverse pleasure from making "mista…Read more
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Perversion and Forensic Science: Fraudulent TestimoniesSocial Research: An International Quarterly 78 (4): 887-906. 2011.The popular fascination with forensic science, DNA bio?banks and TV shows such as CSI have created a belief that the law can track down any criminal and that only a small sample from his or her body is needed to prove whether he or she is guilty or innocent. In recent years, however, there were a number of cases of forensic scientists tampering with DNA evidence. Psychoanalysis raises the question of whether such cases present us with individuals who derive a perverse pleasure from making "mista…Read more
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Birkbeck, University of LondonRegular Faculty