“If a love encounter is like a good joke, then what is love in its duration and temporality-what is, as we say, a love that lasts?”
Alenka Zupančič is a Lacanian philosopher and social theorist. She is a professor at The European Graduate School and at the University of Nova Gorica. Zupančič is one of the most prominent members of the “Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis.” She is also a renowned Nietzsche scholar.
Key elements of Zupančič’s work focus on the relations between sexuality, ontology and the unconscious and the idea of the self and the Real.
“If Zupancic’s book does not become a classic work of reference, the only conclusion will be that our academia is caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.”—Slavoj Žižek