Eric Santner

Three Essays on the Sexuality of Theory

Faculty of Arts and Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis organise a lecture by professor Eric Santner.

Monday, 15 October 2018, at 5 p.m., auditorium of Moderna galerija.

In 1905, Freud published one of his most famous works, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. The work is regarded as the milestone of psychoanalytic theory and all further theoretical approaches to sexuality. Through the inversion of concepts in Freud's title, the lecture deals with the problem of how sexual difference is inscribed in the abstraction and universality of philosophical (and broader theoretical) concepts. How to think the universality of sexual difference that opposes universality?

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Eric Santner is a professor at the Department of German Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous articles and books, among which we can list only a few of the most important: My Own Private Germany. Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity, Princeton University Press 1996; On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life, University of Chicago Press 2001; The Neighbor. Three Inquiries in Political Theology (with Slavoj Žižek and Kenneth Reinhard), University of Chicago Press 2005; On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald, University of Chicago Press 2006; The Royal Remains: The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty, University of Chicago Press 2011; The Weight of All Flesh, Oxford University Press 2015. Eric Santner is a longtime close associate of the "Ljubljana School", and his lecture is part of the collaboration between the Faculty of Arts Ljubljana and the University of Chicago

Respondents will be Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Mladen Dolar.

Lecture in English.

The organisers are grateful to the Moderna galerija for making their premises available for the event.