Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics

Since the late 1970s, the focus on the “urban question” has shifted from the question of social movements to the question of social control and violence, from political struggle to “postpolitical” risk management. In this context, the city is increasingly transformed into a “network city”: fragmented space held togeth…

The immanence of terror, regardless of its source, is evident not only in the protagonists' behaviour, but also in their choice of methods, pathological copies of the enemy like those made by a retrovirus of the attacked cell.

Well over a millennium and a half ago, Augustine distinguished between two cities: the Heavenly City and the Earthly City. While one was the site of all that was holy and spiritual, the place of faith, the other was foul and wicked, the realm of the flesh. Such dichotomies, expanded into a full‐fledged binary logic, p…

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The political discourse on the problem of state survival in Turkey is hegemonic. What is central to this discourse is Sévresphobia: the idea that Turkey is surrounded by internal and external enemies who are ready to destroy it. This article aims to explain why the political discourse on the problem of state survival…

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The political discourse on the problem of state survival in Turkey is hegemonic. What is central to this discourse is Sévresphobia: the idea that Turkey is surrounded by internal and external enemies who are ready to destroy it. This article aims to explain why the political discourse on the problem of state survival…

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Lacan’ın kaygı hakkındaki görüşleri Freud’un “Ketlemeler, Semptom ve Kaygı” adlı çalışması etrafında şekillenmektedir. Bu çalışma Lacan’ın Kaygı adını verdiği onuncu seminerine bağlı kalarak, Freud ve Lacan’ın kaygı hakkındaki görüşleri arasındaki ayrımlara ve ortak noktalara odaklanmıştır. Lacan, Freud’dan farklı ola…

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Mourning is one of the two concepts that emerged from Freud's article Mourning and Melancholia and is frequently subjected to research. However the concept of melancholia is studied less. Furthermore, melancholia remains in an ambiguous position: sometimes it is attributed to a person's personality pattern and sometim…

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Abstract This essay explores the influence of Benjamin’s fragmentary historiography on Arendt’s understanding of narrative. I argue that Arendt and Benjamin shared a common understanding of the problems of modernity. For both thinkers contemporary conditions of existence were defined on the one hand, by a similar conc…

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Günümüzde bağımlılık oranlarında ve türlerinde yüksek oranda artış görülmektedir. Bu artışla eş zamanlı olarak bağımlılığın önlenmesine yönelik kurumsal ve yasal birçok düzenleme ortaya çıkmıştır. Ancak diğer yandan toplumsal söylemde, Özne’nin keyif verici maddelere ulaşmayı hak ettiğine dair birçok ifade ortaya çıkm…

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This paper investigates the 2007/2008 crisis which has been hailed as the most devastating (and complex) crisis of capitalism since the great depression of 1929. It further discusses the future trends in global capitalism with special emphasis on the expected future developments that are likely to be experienced in th…