European Graduate School

International conference “1917/2017. Revolutions, Communist Legacies and the Spectres of the Future” October 24-26.10.2017 European University at St. Petersburg

Reserach Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana

Part 1 of the Masterclass: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Although psychoanalysis is not philosophy, its subversive dimension is grounded in the fact that it is not simply a particular science or practice but has radical consequences for philosophy: psychoanalysis is a “no” to philosophy that is internal to it, i.e., psychoanalytic theory refers to a gap/antagonism which philosophy blurs but which simultaneously grounds philosophy (Heidegger called this gap ontological difference). Wit...