Naslov
Psychoanalysis as a theory of discourse: the fantasmatic life of power

Autori
Krce-Ivančić, Matko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
DiscourseNet Congress #2

Mjesto i datum
University of Warwick, Warwick, Velika Britanija, 13-15.09.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
discourse ; fantasy ; politics ; power ; psychoanalysis

Sažetak
Following the coverage of Brexit, it could not be overlooked that the referendum was saturated with a discourse emphasising the importance of facts and then, after the result had proven to be on the leave side, the entire field of predictions and rationalisations based on the facts crumbled. Interestingly, The Guardian published the article View from Wales: town showered with EU cash votes to leave EU, in which the author suddenly realises that she is in fact writing a report from ''a town with almost no immigrants that voted to get the immigrants out''. Confronted with such example, this paper identifies a fruitful nexus between discourse analysis and psychoanalytic insights, emphasising the essentially fantasmatic structure of power. Psychoanalysis enables discourse analysis to look beyond facts and ask, for example, whether the leave decision was fundamentally motivated by the fantasy of enjoyment 'stolen' by the other EU members? Bearing in mind that, according to Lacan, psychoanalysis is a theory of discourse, I demonstrate that psychoanalysis can help us to go beyond the declaration that meaning is socially produced, probing the fundamental question – how?

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

Napomena
Ustanova: University of Manchester, Manchester,
Velika Britanija. Ovaj rad podupiru: ‘President’s
Doctoral Scholar Award’ i ‘School of Social
Sciences PhD Studentship’ (dodjeljuje: Sociology,
School of Social Sciences, University of
Manchester), i ‘Economic and Social Sciences
Research Council North West Doctoral Training
Centre Studentship [grant number ES/J500094/1]’.

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