Overview
My main fields of research include continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, the Frankfurt School, German idealism, political theory, and, more recently, also Zionism and Jewish thought. My work revolves around the tradition of social critical thought with a special emphasis on affect theory. I’m interested in exploring how political structures and tendencies shape processes of subjectification and, thus, contribute to the construction of unconscious attitudes among individuals.
My previous projects dealt with Freud’s, Nietzsche’s, and Marcuse’s notions of the non-repressive civilization (with a special focus on Freud’s myth of the civilizing process as well as his idea of the society of the death drive). Another project revolved around the shifts in the role of shame and guilt in the age of social media (web 2.0). My current research explores the notion of “new antisemitism”; I analyze the current discourse on antisemitism through the theoretical lenses of epistemic injustice, Christian-Jewish political theology, and the revival of the academic diasporic discourse about "Jewish identity without Zionism”.