Mina Jafarisabet
In her doctoral thesis, Mina Jafarisabet examines social phobias through a Lacanian lens.
Sep 08, 2025
After more than a year into her Bachelor studies in Arts at the University of British Columbia, Mina Jafarisabet transferred her studies to the university of Allameh Tabatabaei in 2003. There, she graduated as the top student of her cohort in 2007. Having obtained her BA degree in social sciences and ranked three on Iran's national sociology master admission exam, she started her master degree at the University of Tehran and graduated in 2011.
Mina Jafarisabet translated and published Derrida's "Gift of Death" and Lacan's "Names of the Father" (from English into Farsi) as one book in 2016, and Lacan's "Kant with Sade" as a separate book in 2021.
She has been studying psychoanalysis since 2014 in preparation for practice of psychoanalysis in the near future.
Jafarisabet started her second master degree at FU Berlin in European Societies in 2016 and graduated in 2018 with an excellent master thesis which she wrote under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Harald Wenzel and Dr. Martin Kienscherf. She has been a doctoral candidate under the supervision of Dr. Markus Kienscherf since October 2019.
Her research is focused on social phobias (from xenophobia to transphobia) and their exploitation by the capitalist discourse that has been affirming our modes of enjoyment whatsoever it might be as long as it gives in to the enjoyment of the capital. Libertine is my main subject of reference to explain the contingencies of social phobia in its different forms. Europe is dreaming of becoming a phallic republic in the fear of an imminent invasion. From the left to the right what is predominant is the fear of the shattering of the phallus. Europe must not know that it is dead, like the ghost of Hamlet’s father. This attempt at keeping the Other satisfied calls for a theater of fear and hate, which have no bearings but self-hatred and destruction. In our time, hate is jubilant and love is love and ignorance no longer endures as the spectacle does not halt.
These three main passions according to Lacan, constitute three chapters of my monograph. I argue that since love, that is never just love, has been capitalized by corporate interests. I also argue as the big Other is being revitalized by artificial intelligence, hate is strengthened between little others. Lastly, ignorance seems impossible. Every answer that one seeks lies at the tip of your finger if one dares to ask the question. The Other is at your service.
Further Information
E-mail: minajafari93@zedat.fu-berlin.de