Vera King

Prof. Dr. Vera King is Professor of Sociology and Psychoanalytic Social Psychology in the Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University and Managing Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute Frankfurt/M. From 2002-2016 she was Professor of Development and Socialization Research at the University of Hamburg, 1997-2002 she was a research assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt/M., where she habilitated in sociology in 2002. She was a research assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt/M., where she habilitated in sociology in 2002. Her focus is on socio-psychological analyses of social transformations. She conducts research on the consequences of digitalization (e.g. as speaker of the joint project 'Das vermessene Leben'), on optimization requirements in the context of changing time relations (e.g. as PI of a sub-project on 'Reproductive Timing' within the framework of an ongoing DFG research group) and on changes in social pathologies and normalities (e.g. as speaker of the completed joint project APAS 'Aporias of Perfection in Accelerated Modernity'). She also conducts research on changes in life phases and intergenerational relationships and was spokesperson for the doctoral program 'Psychosocial Consequences of Migration and Flight. Generational dynamics and adolescent trajectories'. Together with Ferdinand Sutterlüty, she is leading a DFG project on "Reassessing authoritarian syndromes in the context of digital media", which also examines dynamics of trust and mistrust from a socio-psychological perspective.

King, Vera; Sutterlüty, Ferdinand et al. (2023): „Triumph des Misstrauens. Normalisierte Spaltungen in der Coronakrise“. In: Psyche 77 (12). King, Vera 2022: Sozioanalyse. Zur Psychoanalyse des Sozialen mit Pierre Bourdieu. Gießen. King, Vera 2021: Autoritarismus als Regression, WestEnd. Zeitschrift für Kritische Sozialforschung, Stichwort ‚Destruktivität und Regression im Rechtspopulismus‘, 18(1), S. 87‒102. King, Vera 2020: Psyche and Society in Critical Theory and Contemporary Social Research. With special reference to Horkheimer/Adorno and Bourdieu, Azimuth. International Journal of Philosophy, 16(2), 15–33. King, Vera; Gerisch, Benigna & Rosa, Hartmut (Hg.) 2019: Lost in Perfection. Impacts on Optimization on Culture and Psyche, London/New York (extended German edition: Suhrkamp 2021).