Psychoanalysis and fate

Hajdini, Simon (author)

The text explores the Lacanian-Kierkegaardian concept of repetition, linking it to fate, subjectivity, and the unconscious. Taking its cue from Freud’s concept of the compulsion of destiny as it relates to Lacan’s radical reinterpretation of the Aristotelian couple of automaton and tyche, the article examines the idea of successful failure in psychoanalysis and its connection to fatalistic freedom. The latter challenges traditional notions of freedom as choice and embraces a more contingent and unpredictable understanding of fate.

• Language: English
• Keywords: psychoanalysis, causality, contingency, destiny, fatalism, freedom
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 141-157, 291
• Numbering: Letn. 63, št. 11/12
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-182181
• UDC: 159.964.26:124.6
• ISSN on article: 0555-2419
• COBISS.SI-ID: 275557891
• Publication date in RUL: 29.04.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Problemi : revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Problemi
• Publisher: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo
• ISSN: 0555-2419
• COBISS.SI-ID: 13608448

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: psihoanaliza, vzročnost, kontingenca, usoda, fatalizem, svoboda

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J6-4625-2022
• Name: Imena na konici nosu: imenovanje, voh in resnica

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0252-2022
• Name: Filozofske raziskave