1. Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework.
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Mandelbaum, Moran M
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THEORY of knowledge , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *PRACTICAL politics , *BRITISH withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020 , *POSSIBILITY , *DESIRE , *SUBJECTIVITY - Abstract
Interpellation, the production and hailing of subjectivities, is key to poststructuralist international relations (IR) theory and yet with some notable exceptions interpellation/hailing as an analytical concept remains somewhat undertheorized. This paper presents a Lacanian–Žižekian psychoanalytical theorization of interpellation in IR, while engaging with the ontology and epistemology of belonging. More specifically, this paper develops four major psychoanalytical concepts: void/lack, fantasy, jouissance, and desire, as it argues that void/lack at the subjective and objective levels renders interpellation possible and destabilises it, thus accounting for the im/possibility of belonging. This paper illustrates the psychoanalytical framework of interpellation by analyzing national-populism as manifested in the Brexit discourse in the UK as well as the interpellation in homonationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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