Claudia Mohor Valentino is a PhD student at the department of Government, and part of the Centre for Ideology and discourse analysis at the University of Essex. Her primary research interest is the postructuralist discourse theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis and protests. She’s currently researching the possible contribution of the Lacanian category of demand for the social and political field focusing in the cases of Occupy movement and October 2019 Chilean unrest.