1st Edition
Powers of Abjection Politics and Lacanian Ontology
By Ricardo Laleff Ilieff
Copyright 2025
136 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
136 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
136 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In this book, Ricardo Laleff Ilieff presents a new ontological understanding of politics through the writings of Julia Kristeva’s notion of “abjection” in dialogue with Sigmund Freud’s concept of “Unheimlich” and Jacques Lacan’s ontology “du rél”.
Aimed at those who are interested in the politics-psychoanalytic “praxis”, Laleff Ilieff argues that the abject enables one to critically read... Read more
Foreword
Yannis Stavrakakis
Introduction
Part One: The Real and the Symbolic
1. The Uncanny
2. A Pure Real
Part Two: Sacrifice
3. The Crisis of Distinctions
4. Homines Sacri
Part Three: War
5. The Enemy
6. The Partisan
Part Four: The One
7. Being Pané
8. The Part of Those That Have No Part
Afterword
Biography
Ricardo Laleff Ilieff is Professor of Political Theory at the Gino Germani Research Institute (University of Buenos Aires) as well as a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina.
