Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sidney University, Ausztrália) előadása
Az Általános Irodalomtudományi Kutatócsoport és az ELTE Összehasonlító Irodalom- és Kultúratudományi Tanszék meghívására Dimitris Vardoulakis professzor (Western Sidney University) From Marx to Freud via Epicurus: Materialism and Psychoanalysis címmel tart előadást az ELTE BTK-n (Múzeum krt. 4/A 329-es terem), június 19-én, 16.00 órától.
Az előadás rezüméje itt olvasható:
"I will start by discussing two factually wrong interpretations of the clinamen in Marx’s dissertation and in Deleuze’s essay on Lucretius. The errors here are less important than the desire to determine a politically committed materialism that addresses social relations. Differently put, the errors are symptomatic of the early Marx’s and Deleuze’s political commitments. After exploring the source of the mistake in the “Latin Culture” that Marx was imbued in, I will show that in fact he rectifies the mistaken interpretation later on, in the most unexpected of places. It may come as a surprise that a key premise of Marx’s solution is shared with psychoanalysis. This shows, I argue, that Marx and Freud’s ideas are not sui generis but in fact partake of a long tradition that stretches back to Epicureanism. By contrast, Deleuze’s position represses one key move characteristic of Epicurus. This has major implications about how we can think today about politics."