Robert Pfaller

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Robert Pfaller (born 1962 in Vienna) is an Austrian professor of philosophy. Pfaller initially taught as a professor of philosophy and cultural studies at the University of Art and Design Linz and at the Vienna University of Technology. From 2009 to October 2014, he was professor of philosophy at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2019, he has been professor of philosophy at the University of Art and Design Linz. Pfaller gained international recognition for his studies on interpassivity (2000). Interpassivity refers to the practice of delegating one's own actions and feelings to external objects, i.e., people or things. The theory of interpassivity mainly relates to the realm of pleasurable sensations, which is why interpassivity can also be described as "delegated enjoyment". A common example of this from everyday life is the canned laughter in sitcoms analyzed by Slavoj Žižek, which laughs in our place and thus saves us the "effort" of laughing ourselves. We feel as liberated as if the laughter had been our own. In his work Die Illusionen der anderen (The Illusions of Others), Pfaller develops the thesis that there are delusions that cannot be attributed to a specific person, based in part on the psychoanalytic considerations of Octave Mannoni and Johan Huizinga's cultural theory of play (see Homo Ludens).