Lacan in Bosnia

Salecl, R (1994) The spoils of freedom: Psychoanalysis and feminism after the fall of socialism. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415--07358-8 pbk. 167 pages.

Authors

  • David Spurrett
  • Duncan Lahner

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/1998/n23a8

Abstract

The spoils of freedom is the fourth title in the series Opening Out: Feminism for Today, which, according to series editor Teresa Brennan, will "apply the living insights of feminist critical theory in current social and political contexts" (pvi).

Salecl's contribution is an attempt to develop an account of ideology drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, especially a Lacanian notion of jouissance (enjoyment), her essential claim being that "there is no politics without fantasy" (p37). This analysis grows out of her attempt to account for various social changes in Eastern Europe, especially former Yugoslavia, and is in turn deployed in an effort to understand those changes. The main areas Salee! considers are, besides ideology, the rise of conservative moral majorities in post-socialist countries, the nature of war, distributive justice and human rights, the notion of normalisation, power, violence and its legitimation, and several issues relating to feminism.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2026-01-18

How to Cite

Spurrett, D., & Lahner, D. (2026). Lacan in Bosnia: Salecl, R (1994) The spoils of freedom: Psychoanalysis and feminism after the fall of socialism. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415--07358-8 pbk. 167 pages. PINS-Psychology in Society, (23). https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/1998/n23a8

Issue

No. 23 (1998)

Section

Book Reviews

License

Copyright (c) 2026 David Spurrett, Duncan Lahner

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

This journal is an open access journal, and the authors' and journal should be properly acknowledged, when works are cited.

Authors may use the publishers version for teaching purposes, in books, theses, dissertations, conferences and conference papers.

A copy of the authors’ publishers version may also be hosted on the following websites:

  • Non-commercial personal homepage or blog.
  • Institutional webpage.
  • Authors Institutional Repository.

The following notice should accompany such a posting on the website: “This is an electronic version of an article published in PINS, Volume XXX, number XXX, pages XXX–XXX”, DOI.   Authors should also supply a hyperlink to the original paper or indicate where the original paper (http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/pins) may be found.

Authors publishers version, affiliated with the Stellenbosch University will be automatically deposited in the University’s’ Institutional Repository SUNScholar.

Articles as a whole, may not be re-published with another journal.

The copyright of the article(s) lies with the author(s).

The copyright of the journal lies with PINS-psychology in Society.

The following license applies:

Attribution CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/