KKC-Lecture with Dr. Anup Dhar (BML Munjal University, India & KKC-Fellow) Gandhi and the Marx-Freud Möbius: The Psychobiograph of Non-Violence 

KKC lecture
Speaker: Dr. Anup Dhar (BML Munjal University, India & KKC Fellow)
Wed., May 14, 2025   -   4.15 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. (CEST)  7.45 p.m. (IST)
GD 1/156; hybrid

What happens to The Concept of the Political and the friend-foe distinction when the praxis of a transformative philosopher like Gandhi is introduced from the non-west? What  becomes of the logic of The Beast and the Sovereign when the psychobiograph of Gandhian non-violence is added as footnote? Gandhi, despite failures, perhaps brought Marx and Freud—political and libidinal economies—into a Möbius-like dialogue. In doing so, did he unsettle both the a-psychoanalytic nature of the political and the a-political nature of psychoanalysis? His political vision was not rooted in power, but in the sustained psychoanalytic work of the non-coercive reconciliation of modern morals and paleolithic affect. This reconciliation is the ground of the spiritual praxis of the satyagrahi— through ongoing experiments with truth, swaraj and swadeshi.

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