The Internal Establishment

Haggett, Paul

doi:10.1057/9780230597815_8

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“…And this is equally true in terms of a person's own life. Here radical change also has to confront internal opposition, in this case the rules, constraints and expectations 'within our head' which constitute a kind of 'internal establishment' (Hoggett, 1998).…”

Section: First Order and Second Order Agencymentioning

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Agency, Rationality and Social Policy

2001

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The recent concern to develop a radical but critical account of agency in social policy is to be welcomed. However this article questions whether the work of A. Giddens can provide an adequate foundation for such a project. Giddens's account of the welfare subject contains several weaknesses. It is voluntaristic and yet paradoxically it cannot offer an adequate understanding of radical change. It is also rationalistic and assumes the existences of a unitary and knowledgeable subject. As a consequence there is a danger that social policy develops a lop-sided model of agency which is insufficiently sensitive to the passionate, tragic and contradictory dimensions of human experience. A robust account of the active welfare subject must be prepared to confront the real experiences of powerlessness and psychic injury which result from injustice and oppression and acknowledge human capacities for destructiveness towards self and others. Only by exploring these different subject positions – victim, ‘own worst enemy’ and creative, reflexive agent – can we develop an understanding of the welfare subject which is optimistic without being naive.

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2001

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“…The three assumptions that he outlines -dependency, fight-flight (paranoid), and pairing (salvationist) -can be thought of as timeless survival myths operating at a primitive, pre-psychological level. 28 We make use of this theory below when considering how, if the range of acceptable communication in deliberative groups is widened, it can still be possible for them to "contain" affective forces.…”

Section: A Psychoanalytical Perspective On the Emotionsmentioning

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Toward a Democracy of the Emotions

Hoggett

Thompson

2002

Constellations

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“…Because it is so difficult to hold the contradiction between doubt and action, the necessary and temporary suspension of doubt can easily become a permanent stance in which an internal establishment (Hoggett, 1998) decrees that dissident thoughts are no longer thinkable.…”

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Climate change and the apocalyptic imagination

Hoggett

2011

Psychoanal Cult Soc

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Climate change faces us with yet another in a long line of actual or potential disasters that have occurred over the last century. One powerful and recurring response to such events frames them as catastrophe from which either physical or spiritual escape is imagined. This article attempts a psycho-social analysis of this apocalyptic response to actual or imagined disasters and traces two variants of this response -the redemptive and the survivalist. Whilst such responses appear radical, I argue that they are essentially a defence in the face of despair that has already found expression within climate change science and activism. In contrast, I suggest that what is required is a realistic response to the possibility of climatic disaster, a possibility the probability of which cannot be known. The quandary we face is how to sound the alarm without being alarmist.

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The Internal Establishment

Cited by 5 publications

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Agency, Rationality and Social Policy

Agency, Rationality and Social Policy

Toward a Democracy of the Emotions

Climate change and the apocalyptic imagination

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