Alenka Zupančič (born 1 April 1966) is a Slovenian philosopher whose work focuses on psychoanalysis and continental philosophy. She is a Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist and philosopher who along with Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Žižek have in large measure been responsible for the popularity in North America (and Europe) of a politically infused Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Academics and work Born in Ljubljana, Zupančič graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1990 and received her doctorate in 1995 with a dissertation titled Dejanje in zakon, nezavedno in pojem. Zupančič went on to receive a second doctorate from the Université Paris VIII under Alain Badiou in 1997. She is currently a full-time researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and ArtsProfile at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Accessed: May 1, 2010. and a visiting professor at the European Graduate School.Alenka Zupančič Faculty page at European Graduate School. Biography and bibliography. Accessed: May 1, 2010. Zupančič belongs to the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, which is known for its predominantly Lacanian foundations. Her philosophy is strongly influenced by Slovenian Lacanian scholars, especially Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Žižek.
Zupančič has written on several topics including ethics, literature, comedy, and love. She is most renowned as a Nietzsche scholar, but Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Bergson and Alain Badiou are also referenced in her work. She has many videos on YouTube where she talks about her work and the topics. She has also a Facebook page. There are videos of her and her lectures on the European Graduate School website.
She has 242 works in 305 publications in 6 languages and 3,558 library holdings.
Bibliography Alenka Zupančič EGS Faculty Page (Biography & Works). +TitleYearPublisherISBNNotesWhat IS Sex?2017GallopadeArgument around sex and gender in a Hegelian/Lacanian perspectiveDisavowal2024Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan1995VersoKant and LacanThe Odd One In: On Comedy2008The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two2003Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax2023Cinsellik Nedir2018¿Qué es el sexo?2021Sobre la comedia: un extraño en casa ...2012¿Por qué el psicoanálisis?2013Neden Psikanaliz: Üc Müdahale2011Qu est-ce que le sexe ?2019Éditionsréflexions rétrospectives et prospectives pour souligner le 50e anniversaire de fondation du Conseil du trésor du QuébecWas ist Sex? Psychoanalyse und Ontologie2019Che cosa è il sesso?2018Ser-para-el-sexo: Diálogo entre filosofía y psicoanálisis2013Komedi Sonsuzun Fizigi2022Metis216 pagesFreud und der TodestriebDas Reale einer Illusion: Kant und Lacan2001What is Psychoanalysis2008Poetika: druga knjiga2004Esthétique du désir, éthique de la jouissance2002Verleugnung2026Perché la psicoanalisi? Tre interventi2021Pustila bi jih trohneti: Antigonina paralaksa2022Warum Psychoanalyse? drei Interventionen2009Transcript»Übergriffe« und »Objekte« in Kulturellen Konstellationen Kindlich-Jugendlicher SexualitätDer Geist der Komödie2014MerveGerman translation of "The Odd One In: On Comedy", transl. by Frank Ruda und Jan VölkerHegel ve Freud: Olumsuzlamadan Dürtüye2020Konec: The end2019DeSlavic literature, history and criticismRealno iluzije2001Der kürzeste Schatten: Nietzsches Philosophie der Zwei2024La sexualidad dentro de los límites de la mera razón2013Lacan et la sexualité post-moderne2025Nietzsche: filozofija dvojega2001Etica del Reale. Kant, Lacan2012L'éthique du réel: Kant avec Lacan2009Umbr(a): Writing2010
References
External links Alenka Zupančič Faculty page at European Graduate School. Biography and bibliography. Alenka Zupančič Profile at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Biography and bibliography. Steven Michels. 'Nietzsche, Interrupted: A review of Alenka Zupancic, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two'. In: Lacan.com. Adam Atkinson. The Odd One In: On Comedy by Alenka Zupančič. In: Media Culture Reviews.