Anna-Lisa Sander

Anna-Lisa Sander is a Doctoral student and Researcher at the Chair of Philosophy with a focus on Kant and German Idealism at the University of Heidelberg. Her work bridges Hegelian philosophy with psychoanalytic theory, examining themes of intersubjectivity, aesthetics, and transformation through repetition compulsions.

• Education:
  • PhD in Philosophy (current, University of Heidelberg)
  • MA in Educational Sciences (2020, University of Tübingen)
  • MA in Philosophy (2018, University of Tübingen)
  • BA in Philosophy (2016, University of Tübingen)

Her research explores Klassische deutsche Philosophie (especially Hegel), Psychoanalyse, and Theorien der Intersubjektivität, with a focus on how aesthetic forms enable transformative processes in Hegel's Phänomenologie des Geistes and psychoanalytic frameworks.

Recent publications analyze aesthetic experience in Proust through Freudian theory (2022) and reframe psychoanalysis as a Hegelian science of spirit (2023). She presented at international workshops in Oxford (2023), Stuttgart (2023), Houston (2022), and Essex (2019), addressing topics like affective involvement in Hegel, trauma, and aesthetic productivity.