Professor Salecl is senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, University of Ljubljana and visiting professor at London School of Economics and Politics, Birkbeck University of London and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.

Renata Salecl is a leading scholar on the relationship between psychoanalysis, criminology and law and nurtures an ongiong relationship with the critical legal studies movement. She has made outstanding contributions the field of sociology by exploring the emotional dimensions of the relationship between lawyer and client, and the psycho-social dimensions of legal practice.

Professor Salecl have also explored and uncovered a plethora of modern society's dominant narratives such as 'choice' and 'fear'. She has played an active role in Slovenian politics and is still percieved as a very well respected commentator in her homeland.

Her list of publications include titles such as:

• The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism after the Fall of Socialism, 1994.
• Gaze and Voice as Love Objects, 1996.
• (Per)versions of Love and Hate, 1998.
• Sexuation, 2000.
• On Anxiety, 2004.
• Choice, 2010.

Contemporary capitalism relies on the ideology that everyone can make it in today’s society and that people are essentially free to choose the direction of their lives. This ideology has greatly contributed to people’s feelings of inadequacy, anxiety and guilt. At the same time, people also more and more engage in various forms of self-torture as well as violent outbursts towards others. The paper will look at the news forms of self-violence that we can observe in post-industrial capitalism as well as at the new forms of violence expressed in the society as such. It will also look at how the fantasy structure of contemporary capitalism has contributed to the new forms of ignorance that we can observe in the developed and developing world.