Alenka Zupančič: Learning to Live in the Nightmare of the Present
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Alenka Zupančič
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Alenka Zupančič offers a psychoanalytic and philosophical analysis of our current political moment, arguing that the breakdown of the status quo—often described as an "interregnum" or deranged time—is not merely a transitional period but may itself constitute the new reality. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, she contends that nightmares are not something to escape from but the only reality we have, and we must learn to live within them. The essay challenges the notion that we are simply waiting for something better to emerge, instead suggesting that the "interregnum" might already be the "regnum"—the ruling order itself.
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· 3 pulledDeranged times, or times that are 'out of joint,' call for analysis, including psychoanalysis.
Not that we can simply treat society, politics, and politicians as analysands in a clinical setting.
Nightmares are the only reality we have, so we should learn to live in them.
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