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Alenka Zupančič on Antigone, Iran, Marx, and a lot of other things

Crisis and Critique

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The Difference Between Repression and Disavowable

I think the movie does a great job of portraying our social climate as that of I would put it like this ordinary perversion. Our prevailing response to this social truemitism is much more closer to disavowable, to what Freud could fetishize perverse disavowable than to depression in this classical sense of a dream. So, disavowable for me, it's interesting because it doesn't make something disappear, but changes or effects the character of this something,. It's real or it's a reality.

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