Koteska, Jasna
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Koteska, Jasna
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Koteska, Jasna
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Item type:Publication, Freud on the First World War (Part 2)(Researcher - European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020-01-30)Abstract: The article “Freud on the First World War (Part 2)” analyzes Sigmund Freud’s controversial attitude towards the First World War. It exposes Freud’s attitude towards the medical procedure known as the faradization, and his double role regarding the Great War. His public persona was that of a pacifist scholar, while his personal correspondence reveals a nationalist who lived from one German victory to the next. This article demonstrates there are two Freuds regarding the Great War. The ‘first Freud’ was his public medical persona, who lamented the partisan attitudes of scientists carried away by their emotions. The ‘second Freud’ is Freud in communication with his closest friends and colleagues, where he admits his nationalism, and he identified himself with the Austro-German side and displays a war enthusiasm. In the only study dedicated to the Great World, the study titled “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death”, Freud offered a rich and valid insight into human nature, human’s capacity for destruction, and also human’s attitude towards its own immortality. Freud draw a clear distinction between war and death, and while in the first essay he dealt with discontent and disillusionment, in the second he says that human’s unconsciousness believes in its own immortality. The article also exposes Freud’s legendary meetings with artists during the Great War, and most notably with Lou Andreas-Salomé and with Rainer Maria Rilke. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Бранот: човеката природа и авторитарноста. The Wave: Human Psychology and Authoritarianism(Филозофска трибина, списание на Катедрата за Филозофија и Филозофското друштво на Македонија, УКИМ, Скопје. Philosophical Tribune, Journal of the Department of Philosophy and the Macedonian Philosophical Society, Skopje, 2019)The article "The Wave: Human Psychology and Authoritarianism" by Jasna Koteska analyzes the implications of the social experiment known as The Third Wave from 1967, as well as its film adaptation in the German movie “The Wave” (2008) by Dennis Gansel. It addresses several issues related to the experiment, such as: the questions of human responsibility, how the authoritarian ideology is being implemented, what is the relationship between a human being and his/her social role, what is the difference between authoritarianism and fascism, ethics vs free will, and finally how to conceptualize the thinking related to human actions. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Jewel on a Frozen Lake: Kierkegaard on the Meaning of Action(Central European Research Institute Soren Kierkegaard and KUD Apokalipsa, Ljubljana, 2019-05-13)The paper "The Jewel on a Frozen Lake: Kierkegaard on the Meaning of Action" by Jasna Koteska analyzes the paradox in Søren Kierkegaard’s interpretation of the meaning of action in his famous 1846 tract “Two Ages: A Literary Review”. As is well-known, to describe the two ages Kierkegaard used a parable of a precious jewel on a frozen lake covered with thin ice. If the age is revolutionary, Kierkegaard writes, the whole community celebrates the courage of a person who will sacrifice his life for the common goal. And vice versa, if the age is reflective, people consider the hero’s action as unreasonable and meaningless, they ridicule his courage and strength, and reduce the hero’s sacrifice to a simple display of skills. The paradox occurs when Kierkegaard describes the revolutionary vigor. Otherwise known for his masterful literary style, Kierkegaard enigmatically avoided the playful, urgent and swift descriptions, which would correspond to the momentum needed for revolutionary action and instead chose repetitive and dull sentences. E.g.: “The age of revolution is essentially passionate and therefore essentially has culture”; “The tension and resilience of the inner being are the measure of essential culture”; “The age of revolution is essentially passionate” and so on. (Kierkegaard, S., Two Ages, H.V. Hong, E.V. Hong, Princeton UP, 1978, 61-62). The obvious question is why Kierkegaard, who was aware that repetition brings reduction of jouissance, chose to interpret the revolutionary age through repetition, and with the same melancholy and mourning with which he described the present age? Was it because he considered every revolution as essentially a repetitive event? Or, because he believed that each self-sacrifice (the hero on thin ice) is always already a senseless gesture, which cannot get an approval of the community? Or, more radically, what if there is no age which can be called a revolutionary age? What if there is nothing exclusive in history, and each epoch is just a set of practical decisions about what kind of life one wants to commit oneself to? The paper argues that Kierkegaard developed a notion that both pleasure of the aesthetical and the ethical existence - “the life of a poet” and “the life of a judge” are incomplete, the only resolution of human’s destiny must come about in the form of a religious choice. Due to the radical antagonism of human situation, humans are incapable of bypassing the abyss between the finite and the infinite, therefore the action is always conducted without a full meaning, without a rational knowledge of the consequences of that action and with a leap of faith; therefore the true action can come only in the form of a conduct of the single individual directed towards the highest good as it is understood in Kierkegaard. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Freud on the First World War (Part 1)(Researcher - European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019-11-02)The article “Freud on the First World War (Part 1)” by Jasna Koteska analyzes the birth of psychoanalysis as Austro-Hungarian legacy, and the role of the Austrian psychoanalytic Sigmund Freud in the events of the First World War (1914-1918). The article explains how psychoanalysts modified their doctrine in relation to the historical events, because the beginning of the World War 1 overlapped with Freud’s writings about the Thanatos as a more fundamental drive than Eros. The article argues that contrary to popular belief that the Great War obstructed the rise of psychoanalysis, the evidence proves that World War I was the single most important historical event for the triumph of psychoanalysis. Originally intended to treat individuals, psychoanalysis proved to be useful for explaining the attitudes of collective entities and Freud and his pupils further developed the concepts of war neurosis, shell shock, and the so-called “theory of the stimulus shield”. The article analysis the attitude of psychoanalysis towards the war torture (especially in the so-called “The Rat Man case”), and the struggles of Freud and his pupils to adapt and rethink the methods for treatment of traumatized soldiers. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Troubles with History: Skopje 2014(MIT Press, 2011-12-29)Article about Skopje 2014 project, published in 2011. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Sanitary Enigma (2004)(Euro Balkan Press, 2004)The author analysis the psychoanalytical mechanisms which produce the human need for cleanness. Cleanness is being investigated as an enigma which has a central role in the process of subjectivisation. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Against the Pre-Archival Mentality (2006)(Skopje : Cultural Institution Blesok, Blesok : the art is inside, 2006-08-06)These lines are dedicated to the book “The Female Side of the Story: The Crisis in Macedonia in 2001” by Aleksandra Bubevska and Miruse Hoxa, Evrobalkan Press, 2006. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Digital me Ontology and Ethics(VIA University College in Aarhus, Denmark, 2022-01-21)