Lene Auestad
Lene Auestad is a philosopher from the University of Oslo.[1] She has written on the themes of prejudice, social exclusion and minority rights, and has contributed to public debates on hate speech.[2]
She founded and runs the interdisciplinary conference series Psychoanalysis and Politics, which aims to address how contemporary political issues may be analyzed through psychoanalytic theory and vice versa – how political phenomena may reflect back on psychoanalytic thinking.
Books
- Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice: A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination A book based on her PhD dissertation was published by Karnac in 2015.[3] The dissertation was supervised by Arne Johan Vetlesen.
- Nationalism and the Body Politic: Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia (Karnac 2014), which aims to question the recent revival of neo-nationalist policies in the light of what unconscious fantasies are involved in these developments. It examines both recent movements of right-wing extremism and the way in which rearticulated neo-ethnic ideas have been adopted by mainstream politicians and in mainstream public discourse.[4]
- Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation (Karnac 2012), which poses the question of how psychoanalysis can be used to think about the invisible and subtle processes of power over symbolic representation, in the context of stereotyping and dehumanization: What forces govern the state of affairs that determine who is an 'I' and who is an 'it' in the public sphere?[5]
- Handling, frihet, humanitet. Møter med Hannah Arendt (Action, Freedom, Humanity. Encounters with Hannah Arendt), co-edited with Helgard Mahrdt, was published by Akademika, Trondheim in 2011.[6]
Interviews
In English: About the book, Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice, podcast on New Books in Psychoanalysis 11 September 2015
About hate speech: "Fierce online debate brings more prejudice" Alpha Galileo 13 September 2013
About the conference series Psychoanalysis and Politics "Introducing Psychoanalysis and Politics" in Journal of Psycho-Social Studies Volume 7 (1) 2013
in Swedish: •Lene Auestad, Iréne Matthis and Diana Mulinari: Vad ska vi med psykoanalysen till? (What do we need psychoanalysis for?) in the journal Fronesis, special issue on the psyche, (psyket)no.44-45 2013
in Spanish: Encuentro en la SEP del grupo Psychoalysis and Politics (The Spanish Psychoanalytical Society’s encounter with Psychoanalysis and Politics) Interview with Lene Auestad and Jonathan Davidoff by the Spanish psychoanalysts Neri Daurella and Eileen Wieland, on the Spanish Society’s webpages, (in Spanish)
References
- ↑ https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/disputaser/2013/auestad.html
- ↑ http://www.dagbladet.no/2015/09/21/kultur/meninger/kommentar/flyktninger/facebook/41179815/
- ↑ http://lawritings.net/
- ↑ http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pcs/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/pcs201533a.html
- ↑ http://www.karnacbooks.com/Author.asp?AID=18161
- ↑ http://www.akademikaforlag.no/node/1618