Radical Sociality

Palacios, Margarita

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“…Lacan argues that anxiety appears when castration is lacking. As I have elaborated elsewhere 56 , if desire is mobilized by lack and framed by fantasy anxiety signals a presence, this means that instead of the necessary lack that puts desire in motion, the subject is 'asphyxiated' by the proximity of the object cause of desire. Anxiety signals a failure in symbolic reality, a disappearance of the fantasy support of desire.…”

Section: The Openingmentioning

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Becoming the People: A Critique of Populist Aesthetics of Homogeneity

Palacios¹

2020

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Although Ernesto Laclau argues that heterogeneity is at the core of homogeneity, I argue that his account of heterogeneity ultimately pulverizes it. In his work, heterogeneity either becomes colonized (invisible and disavowed), or it becomes excluded (highly visible, penalized and anxiety provoking). Laclau's uncritical deployment of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and its modernist epistemological dualism, I argue, lead him to not only theorize heterogeneity as racialized/feminine excess that needs to be excluded for meaning to emerge, but also, to conceptualize populism as the performative homogenizing production of the (phallic) signifier of the "One." My paper stresses the political and conceptual problems of such a formulation.

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Section: The Openingmentioning

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Becoming the People: A Critique of Populist Aesthetics of Homogeneity

Palacios¹

2020

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“…Links between sexuality and gender are reinstated in this work, which sets a process of repudiation and melancholic loss at the core of gender identity. This theme has been taken up significantly in psychosocial thinking as one route into the question of how identities are both formed and subverted through the processes of social and sexual subjectification (Palacios, 2013;Sabsay, 2016).…”

Section: Exterior Critiquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychosocial studies with psychoanalysis

Frosh

2019

Journal of Psychosocial Studies

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Psychosocial studies is methodologically and theoretically diverse, drawing on a wide range of intellectual resources. However, psychoanalysis has often taken a privileged position within this diversity, because of its well-developed conceptual vocabulary that can be put to use to theorise the psychosocial subject. Its practices have become a model for some aspects of psychosocial work, especially in relation to its focus on intense study of individuals, its explicit engagement with ethical relations, and its traversing of disciplinary boundaries across the arts, humanities and social sciences.This article begins with a brief description of some principles of psychosocial thinking, including its transdisciplinarity and criticality and its interest in ethics and in reflexivity. It then explores the place of psychoanalysis in this genealogy, presenting the case for psychoanalysis’ continuing contribution to the development of psychosocial studies. It is argued that this case is a strong one, but that the critique of psychoanalysis from the discursive, postcolonial, feminist and queer perspectives that are also found in psychosocial studies is important. The claim will be made that the engagement between psychoanalysis and its psychosocial critics is fundamentally productive. Even though it generates real tensions, these tensions are necessary and significant, reflecting genuine struggles over how best to understand the socially constructed human subject.

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“…The idea that violence is implicated in the foundation of society is of course not unique to Freud: it is also present in a wide range of theories that base their understanding of the social on an exclusionary process, one in which some are allowed inside the boundary of the group and others are not (Palacios, 2013). In this sense, all social formations are violent in the sense that they all differentiate between those who can participate and those who are left outside; and these others then form an opposition that might be derogated or might become a threat and indeed might inflict actual or symbolic harm on the group.…”

Section: Violence In the Unconscious Of Theorymentioning

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Primitivity and violence: Traces of the unconscious in psychoanalysis.

Frosh¹

2017

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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Short statement: This paper offers a critical engagement with psychoanalysis in which some of its 'unconscious' assumptions are examined. It aims to clarify how psychoanalysis participates in some 'colonialist' ideas and to help develop ways of thinking about social violence. 1Primitivity and Violence: Traces of the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis Abstract Psychoanalysis, the theory and practice of the 'unconscious', has an unconscious of its own, in the sense of containing unacknowledged assumptions that continue to affect it. The unconscious of psychoanalysis can be seen in the implicit models that it holds of the nature of the human subject, and particularly in the manner in which psychoanalytic 'knowledge' is disrupted by persistent assumptions and recurrent blind-spots that are at best partially recognised. These operate especially strongly in relation to 'otherness'.In this paper, some lingering effects of psychoanalysis' 'unconscious' assumptions are explored. It is argued in particular that the colonial elements of psychoanalysis' heritage are visible in its conceptualisation of violence and primitivity, and specifically in thinking of violence as an 'atavistic' reproduction of a foundational savagery that, in its imagery and in its substance, is caught up with divisions between civilised and barbaric with very particular sociohistorical resonances.

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Radical Sociality

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

Becoming the People: A Critique of Populist Aesthetics of Homogeneity

Becoming the People: A Critique of Populist Aesthetics of Homogeneity

Psychosocial studies with psychoanalysis

Primitivity and violence: Traces of the unconscious in psychoanalysis.

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