Month: April 2025
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The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt: Between Totalitarianism and Freedom
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was an original and very clear-sighted political philosopher in the twentieth century. Her work, emerging from the experiences of totalitarianism and exile, offers a distinctive vision of political life that continues to be relevant for our contemporary challenges to democracy and human dignity. This post explores Arendt’s central contributions to political thought, […]
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Beyond Oedipus: Law, Desire, and the Symbolic Order
Jacques Lacan’s “return to Freud” wasn’t mere reverence but radical reinterpretation. He transformed our understanding of the Oedipus complex and the human psyche through reconstructing Freudian concepts. This essay explores how Lacan’s reading opened new theoretical possibilities for psychoanalytic thinking, suggesting that our previous understanding of mythology was just the surface of a deeper structural topology.