Dr Fabio Vighi
Overview
Position:
Senior Lecturer
Email:
VighiF@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 2087 5605
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 8655
Extension: 75605
Location: Room 2.04, 65-68 Park Place
My main areas of research are psychoanalysis, film, critical and political theory, as reflected particularly in my work on Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. I am currently developing a research project on enjoyment (jouissance), ideology critique and emancipation, investigating the theoretical scope and practical applicability of Žižek’s distinctive blend of Lacan, Hegel and Marx. I have also written on the Frankfurt School and Italian author Pier Paolo Pasolini. As co-director of the Žižek Centre for Ideology Critique, I welcome enquiries and proposals for postgraduate research on all aspects of Žižek’s work as well as on any of the above disciplines.
Selected Publications
Sexual Difference in European Cinema: the Curse of Enjoyment (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan), 2009.
Žižek: Beyond Foucault (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan), 2007 (co-authored with Heiko Feldner).
Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 2007 (edited with Heiko Feldner).
Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film: Locating the Cinematic Unconscious (Bristol: Intellect), 2006.
Le ragioni dell’altro. La formazione intellettuale di Pasolini tra saggistica, letteratura e cinema (Ravenna: Longo), 2001.
Research Unit
Publications
Books
Sexual Difference in European Cinema: the Curse of Enjoyment (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan),2009.
Žižek: Beyond Foucault (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan), 2007 (with Heiko Feldner).
Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 2007 (edited with Heiko Feldner).
Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film: Locating the Cinematic Unconscious (Bristol: Intellect), 2006.
Le ragioni dell’altro. La formazione intellettuale di Pasolini tra saggistica, letteratura e cinema (Ravenna: Longo), 2001.
Book Chapters
‘Pasolini’s masochism’ in Emanuela Patti (ed.) L’eredità intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (Novi Ligure: Joker), 2009.
‘Fractious companions: psychoanalysis, Italian cinema, and sexual difference’in Thinking Italian Cinema (Special issue of Italian Studies), 2008, pp. 235-254.
‘Sexual difference in and out of European Cinema: Žižek as a reader of Truffaut’ in Vighi and Feldner (eds.) Did Somebody say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), pp. 250-276.
‘Nanni Moretti: Trauma, Hysteria, and Freedom’ in William Hope (ed.) Italian Cinema: New Directions (Oxford-Bern: Peter Lang), 2005, pp. 79-106.
Journal Articles
‘Pathological attachments: Slavoj Žižek on anti-capitalism and liberal democracy’, in Rethinking Marxism, 21(2), 2009 (with Heiko Feldner)
‘Discourse Analysis and Ideology Critique: Exploring Žižek through Foucault’, in European Journal of Political Theory, 6(2), 141-159, 2007 (with Heiko Feldner).
‘Liberation hurts: violence, masochism and anti-capitalism according to Pasolini’, in Italian Studies, 62(1), 2007, pp. 61-77.
‘Resistant and Radical Agency: Traversing Foucault with Slavoj Žižek’, in Journal for Lacanian Studies, 4 (2), 2006, pp. 110-133 (with Heiko Feldner).
‘Beyond liberal democracy: Slavoj Žižek and the politics of ideology critique’, in New Formations 58, 2006, pp. 53-61 (with Heiko Feldner).
‘United States of Europe or Free Trade Zone? No Thanks! Slavoj Žižek on the Future of Europe’, in European Journal for Social Theory 9 (3) 2006, pp. 337-354 (with Heiko Feldner).
‘Lacan for Cinema Today: on the uncanny pouvoir de la vérité’ in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 10(3) 2005, pp. 232-251.
‘On the Real limits of self-consciousness: gazing back at the subversive subject with Marco Bellocchio’, in Culture, Theory and Critique, 42(2) 2005, pp. 147-161.
‘Sublime Accattone: Žižek, Pasolini e la critica dell’ideologia’, in Rivista di Studi Italiani, 22 (1) 2004, pp. 198-224.
‘Encounters in the Real: subjectivity and its excess in Roberto Rossellini’, in Studies in European Cinema, 1(3) 2004, pp. 185-198.
‘Pasolini and Exclusion: Žižek, Agamben and the Modern Sub-Proletariat’, in Theory, Culture and Society 20(5) 2003, pp. 99-121.
‘On torture, passionate attachment and diabolical evil: ethics in Rossellini Open City and Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, in Journal for Lacanian Studies 1(1) 2003, pp. 85-109.
‘Unravelling Moretti’s Political Unconscious. The abyss of the subject in La stanza del figlio’, in Journal of Romance Studies 3(2) 2003, pp. 79-94.
‘Mimesis and the un-reconciled condition: a theoretical approach to Antonioni’s cinema’, in New Formations 47 2002, pp. 144-154.
‘Beyond Objectivity: The Utopian in Pasolini’s Documentaries’, in Textual Practice 16(3) 2002, pp. 491-510.
‘Pasolini con Adorno: Fascismo Rivisitato’, in Italian Studies LVI 2001, pp. 129-147.
‘Lo Sperimentalismo di Pasolini: impegno come Existenz’, in The Italianist XX 2000, pp. 229-252.
‘Adorati toponimi: tracking ideological space in Pier Paolo Pasolini’, in New Readings 5 1999, pp. 25-38.
Biography
Teaching Profile
I teach the following modules: Introduction to Italy post 1945 (Year 1), Borders and Identities in European Film (year 2), Italian Cinema (Year 4) and Pasolini and social conflict in postwar Italy (Year 4). At postgraduate level I teach on the MA in European Studies and the MA in Literature in European Cultures.