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n. motmans

n. motmans is a philosophy major. They will be presenting their senior project, titled ”The Unbearable Object: A Lacanian Critique of Heideggerian Anxiety.” The aim of their paper is to critique Heidegger’s account of anxiety (Angst) from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. They will argue that Heidegger lacks an adequate theory of desire and enjoyment and as a result he fails to properly account for a persecutory and paranoid aspect of anxiety that is exemplified in the experience of the uncanny (Unheimlich). Lacan’s theory, by considering the radically Other maternal dimension (or mOther) is better positioned to offer a theory of anxiety that accounts for the persecutory and paranoid aspect of anxiety.

Major(s)

Philosophy

Class Year

2022

Title

“The Unbearable Object: A Lacanian Critique of Heideggerian Anxiety”