Zepf, Siegfried
Zepf, Siegfried
Bio Sketch
Siegfried Zepf is a German psychoanalyst whose work applies psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Erikson, Lacan) to social and cultural questions. His article "Consumerism and Identity: Some Psychoanalytic Considerations" (2010) analyses how consumption has become central to the formation of individual and social identity.
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Relevance to Geoffrey's Research
Zepf offers a psychoanalytic account of why consumption is effective in shaping identity ("we are what we have"), complementing Geoffrey's more structural/discursive treatments of consumerism and the everyday with an account of the desiring, "lacking" subject.
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