Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change

Bracher, Mark

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“…Lacanian theory has also been a central component of psychogeography in developing an understanding of urban space from diverse gender perspectives (Gunder, 2003b). Zizek (1989, 1999a, b, 2001, 2002b), Bracher (1993 and Stavrakakis (1999Stavrakakis ( , 2003 have extensively used Lacan's social theorisation in critiquing the ideological illusions underlying our political and social realities. Frederic Jameson (2003, pp.…”

Section: Lacan Planning and Urban Policy Formation 89mentioning

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“…The product evoked in the university discourse is that of an alienated, split, subject. This may be the policy expert produced by the tertiary educational system, or in turn, the product can subsequently be the public that the experts impose their learnt knowledges upon (Bracher, 1993). Fledgling planners must position themselves into the system of planning knowledge that constitutes the discipline and by doing so, they become responsible for further reproducing, applying and reinforcing this knowledge in society.…”

Section: The University Discoursementioning

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Lacan, Planning and Urban Policy Formation

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2005

Urban Policy and Research

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Why is it so difficult to define concisely the meaning of 'planning' and many of its dominant concepts-public interest, new urbanism, sustainability or smart growth-when deployed in formulating urban policy? Lacan's discourse theory suggests an answer based on an understanding of our human subjectivity, a subjectivity that implicitly seeks to overlook contradiction and ambiguity in our desire to fulfil human aspirations for a harmonious and secure world. This article will use Lacanian theory to examine the beliefs of the planning profession, how they are shaped and then implemented in our urban environments. In particular, Lacan's central theoretical premise of the Four Discourses will be explained and related to planning policy formulation. That is, how planners' acquire and internalise the discipline's diffuse sets of values, beliefs, knowledges and traditions, prior to then imposing them as urban policies on society.

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Section: Lacan Planning and Urban Policy Formation 89mentioning

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Section: The University Discoursementioning

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Lacan, Planning and Urban Policy Formation

Senior¹

2005

Urban Policy and Research

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“…In Christopher Nolan's (2005) Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne is similarly haunted by the voice of his father, which attenuates Bruce's discordant dual personalities. In each of these pedagogical scenarios, the missing thing, the Lacanian object a, is returned via the ethereal and phantasmatic voice of the primordial father (Bracher 1993).…”

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Guided by Voices

Wallin¹

2010

Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

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“…Lacanian approaches to cultural artefacts explore scenarios in which desire is invoked via signifiers, images and fantasies that offer up sites for identification. Words and arguments, visual performances, or the attraction of 'jouissance' capture subjects and commission paths for affective investment-while simultaneously decommissioning others-and offer platforms to manage desire by concealing or displacing its blockages (see Bracher 1993).…”

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Capturing Desire: Rhetorical Strategies and the Affectivity of Discourse

Martin¹

2015

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article:• Provides a theoretical exploration of rhetorical persuasion as a practice aimed at 'capturing desire'. • Elucidates the shared interest of rhetorical and psychoanalytical theory in the production of so-called 'plausible stories' that mobilise and shape affects. • Surveys different psychoanalytical approaches to the rhetorical articulation of 'symptomatic beliefs' that support political reasoning. • Demonstrates the applicability of psychoanalytical theories to the analysis of a specific example of political speech.In this article I argue that psychoanalytical theory can help us understand the emotional force of political rhetoric. I undertake a theoretical enquiry into the method of interpreting political speeches as strategies of affective persuasion. Both rhetorical and psychoanalytical studies converge in their concern with the production of 'plausible stories' that aim to fold psychic investments into political judgements. To capture desire, I claim, political rhetoric must articulate 'symptomatic beliefs' in relation to wider situational exigencies. I sketch three distinct psychoanalytical approaches, each of which emphasises a different scenario of unconscious organisation where rhetorical strategies are pertinent: namely Freudian, Kleinian, and Lacanian approaches. These are then applied to the example of a controversial rhetorical intervention-Enoch Powell's infamous Birmingham speech of 1968-to demonstrate the various potential foci when undertaking analysis.

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Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change

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