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A Psychoanalytic Approach to Understanding and Un-dermining the Far Right
Datum: Montag, 13. Oktober 2025, 20 Uhr
Ort: Live-Übertragung im Babylon Kino, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 Berlin (1. Stock) und virtuell via Zoom. Den Zoom-Link zur Teilnahme erhältst du in einer weiteren Email zwei Tage vor der Veranstaltung
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(English:) In this talk, Claudia Leeb draws on her book Contesting the Far Right (2024) to challenge con-temporary political and critical theorists who dismiss the importance of psychoanalysis and psychoanalyti-cally inspired early Frankfurt School Critical Theory for the study of the rise of the far right today. She shows that only a psychoanalytic framework that provides us with a theory of the unconscious can explain why people who suffer in precarity capitalism support far-right leaders and movements that further cement capitalism's adverse effects.
Zur Person der Vortragenden:
Claudia Leeb is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University. She is a feminist political theorist who works at the intersection of early Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic Thought to theorize mechanisms of power in contemporary capitalist societies and how we can contest and transform power. She has publis-hed numerous articles in journals (including in Political Theory, Theory & Event, Contemporary Political Theory, Constellations, Perspectives on Politics, Social Philosophy Today, Philosophy & Social Criticism, and Radical Philosophy Review), and in edited volumes. Her recent books include:
Contesting the Far Right (Columbia University Press, New Directions in Critical Theory Series, 2024)
Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2017)
The Politics of Repressed Guilt (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
Power: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, under contra
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