Volume 26 (2023), Edition 1

From a psychoanalytical perspective, utopias can, first of all, be defined as illusions. They are characteristic for being »derived from human wishes«. This, however, does not say anything about their content of reality: Illusions need »not...

Alfred Lorenzer criticizes Bloch’s reception of Freud in the questions of psycho-sexuality and the concept of drive, but then tries to connect elements of Bloch’s utopia, above all the idea of the not-yet-conscious, with his conception of a...

This article starts from a societal crisis of utopian thinking, which is attributed to the identification with neoliberal appeals. Therefore, the first part aims to demonstrate to what extent neoliberal ideology contributes to fetishizing the...