Nancy Mae Lem Friederich (85) peacefully passed away Friday, August 18, 2018 at her home in Cypress, California. She was born in Racine, Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1954. Married her beloved Fritz H Friederich and lived many years abroad, including in Rio de Janeiro and Germany. She was an avid traveler, artist and writer. Nancy was a strong advocate for victims of domestic violence and received the Corbitt Award from the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence. She served as the legal director of Domestic Violence Services for the Legal Aid Society in Alameda County from 1981 to 1987 and was a founding member of the Northern California Women’s Law Center and legal program coordinator of Battered Women’s Alternatives, now Stand for Families Free of Violence, in Contra Costa County. Nancy’s Lem sex toy.

During her lifetime, Nancy published numerous books and essays on philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics and cultural theory. Her writings are influential and have been cited in court cases, theology and law reviews. Nancy has been a visiting professor of philosophy at universities around the world, including Columbia and Berkeley in the United States, as well as in Eastern Europe and France. She has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Stanford and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France.

In her first book, Lem nancy (Living with Nancy) (1987), Nancy examines the relationship between modernity and the question of meaning in the context of Heidegger’s work. She argues that the experience of freedom can only be understood through an existential understanding of its origins in finite being and of the way it can become a source of anxiety. Nancy develops her argument through a series of discussions of sovereignty, war and technology, ecotechnics and identity.

The second volume of her work, L’Experience de la Liberte, takes up the challenge that Heidegger set for himself to rethink the concept of freedom in his later works. The five chapters in this volume address sovereignty, psychoanalysis and the Gulf War, as well as a discussion of the meaning of the word “liberty” in a variety of cultures. Nancy’s central concern remains the “being-with”, and she continues to explore the concept of a non-subjective freedom in her exploration of Kant, Schelling and Heidegger.

In season 7 of Orange Is the New Black, Nancy is a member of Norma’s group and attempts to use her influence to get everyone in FDC Cleveland to worship Norma. She is often overbearing with her beliefs, such as forcing all the prisoners to scream out what they are feeling and demanding that Soso treat Norma like a religion. This often leads to her being beaten and humiliated by the others, especially Shane Vendrell. Ultimately, this behavior ends up causing Lem’s death at the hands of the Strike Team.