Veranstaltungskalender
der Universität Innsbruck und der Medizinischen Universität Innsbruck
Dienstag, 04.11.2025
18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Hörsaal 5, Innrain 52e
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Claudia Leeb
Claudia Leeb is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University. She is a feminist political theorist who works at the intersection of early Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic Thought to theorize mechanisms of power in contemporary capitalist societies and how we can contest and transform power.
This lecture will be held online and live-streamed in Lecture Hall 5 (Hörsaal 5).
In this talk, Claudia Leeb draws on her book Contesting the Far Right (2024) to challenge political theorists who dismiss the importance of psychoanalysis for an analysis of politics in general, and the study of the rise of the far right in particular. Claudia Leeb will show that only a psychoanalytic framework that provides us with a theory of the unconscious can explain why people who suffer in precarity capitalism support far-right leaders and movements that further cement capitalism's adverse effects. Far-right recruitment tactics foreground and then manipulate the unconscious of their followers to make them support the destructive goals of the far right.
Forschungsplattform Center Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung Innsbruck