Preliminary Themes

The suggested themes are only intended to give a general outline to the possible scope of development of the discourse. The necessary direction and focus of the discussion will emerge through the interpretations of the theoretic panel, thus avoiding any prior steering or limitation in quest and analysis.

 

·        Aggression as a pursuit of life

·        Suppressed aggression – a requirement for the functioning of an individual in contemporary society

·        Suppressed aggression – depression, implosion, cancer?

·        Suppressed aggression as depression or death drive (Freud)

·        Auto-destruction (a pursuit of death) enjoying self-destruction

·        The hostile world? And/or the hostile “self”

·        The Other – always an enemy, “I am The Other,” the war begins

·        War – violence instead of power, the use of power in a pure, peremptory way

·        The aesthetics of horror

·        Fucking – aggressive, auto-aggressive or a good/bad coincidence

·        Indolence and indifference. Private space and freedom. Alienation – the final straw (imperial rule – divide and conquer)

·        Accident – the innocent passers-by

·        Constraint, power, violence, passivity

·        Faith, ecstasy, hate

·        The division of soul, spirit, and body – off and online practices, chat-rooms, the gym, plastic surgery…Division and stress.

·        Uncertainty in the body and its origin – genetic engineering – aggression towards the individual on a molecular level

·        Flight from reality – a way out, a necessity, or a dead end – the loneliness of the long- distance runner (my “self” ‘s contemporary)