{"title":"Oxana Timofeeva","description":"\u003cp\u003eOxana Timofeeva’s work challenges conventional boundaries, blending critical theory with incisive cultural analysis. Her writing explores complex intersections between psychoanalysis, politics, and philosophy, offering readers a profound and thought-provoking perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging with themes drawn from science and social theory, Timofeeva’s books invite reflection on contemporary ideas and their historical roots, making them essential for anyone interested in the deeper questions of education, nature, and human behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"solar-politics-by-oxana-timofeeva-9781509549658","title":"Solar Politics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSolar Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is a philosophical essay on the sun. It draws on Georges Bataille’s theories of the solar economy and solar violence, demonstrating their relevance to a world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sun, which has played an essential role in our utopian imaginations since Antiquity, is the ultimate source of energy, both productive and destructive. According to Georges Bataille, its infinite generosity can be seen as a model for human societies, suggesting an alternative to the capitalist economy with its infinite expansion, colonisation, and disastrous consequences on the cosmic scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaking a step from solar economy to solar politics, Timofeeva finds the foundations for this in solidarity with nature, treating it neither as a master nor as a slave, but as a comrade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book will appeal to students, academics, artists, and other readers interested in the philosophy of nature, ecology, social and political theory, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and the humanities generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854839337196,"sku":"9781509549658","price":23.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509549658.jpg?v=1759257163"},{"product_id":"freuds-beasty-boys-by-oxana-timofeeva-9781509568413","title":"Freud's Beasty Boys","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book examines violence and sexuality after Freud. Its characters, though, are not women and men, but rather animals and children. Focusing on three famous Freudian cases in which little boys had issues with animals – Little Hans, The Rat Man, and the Wolf Man – it revises the role played by animals in male gender socialization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTimofeeva demonstrates the relevance of psychoanalysis for anyone who wants to understand how patriarchy works, but she also points to its limitations. For Freud, sexuality creates the background of our psychic lives, and unconscious sexual fantasies are the origins of psychic disorders such as hysteria, obsessions and phobias. But what are the origins of sexual fantasies?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTimofeeva argues that behind psychic dramas of sexuality there is something else: a mechanism of violence which she calls ‘the machine of masculinity’ and which she analyses both through Freud’s cases and through the lens of religion, anthropology and her own life experiences. Wolves, rats and horses are magical agents that connect us to the world of the dead – that is, to the history of our culture in which monotheism replaced totemic practices but the basic psychosocial matrix of turning love into violence continues to reproduce itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383813882092,"sku":"9781509568413","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12706383482725.jpg?v=1773381843"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/oxana-timofeeva.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}