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In his recent article, ‘Disappointment is not just a feeling – it’s a political force,’ Rafael Holmberg presents a striking account of disappointment as a politically charged and structurally revealing affect, building his argument through a critique of stoic optimism and an insistence on the co-implication of subjective experience and objective systemic failure...
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Author Biography
Maria Ibrahim is a doctoral candidate at UCL, conducting conceptual research at the intersection of psychoanalysis and philosophy. Her work explores degrees of intentionality, mechanisms of psychic exclusion, masochism, and repetition compulsion – particularly in relation to trauma. Her work connects Pierre Janet’s clinical insights to psychoanalytic examinations of automatism. Her research draws primarily on Freudian and Lacanian frameworks, while also engaging with Sartrean and Deleuzian philosophy. She is particularly interested in the broader applications of psychoanalysis across disciplines, including literature and contemporary socio-politics.