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On Moving Across Oneself, Collective Identity, Homo-Nationalis, and the Trans-Subject.
- Source :
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Psychoanalytic Review . Sep2022, Vol. 109 Issue 3, p345-367. 23p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This paper contemplates two notions that I have been exploring in relation to the frontier between subjects and collectives. The first is what I call homo-nationalis, the subject formed by and along the organizing principles of nationalism. This subject, I argue, reflects the ideology and reality of the nation-state. It is animated by its imaginaries and unsettled by its fragilities in the deepest psychological sense. The second is what I call the trans-subject. I use this notion inspired by, and wishing to extend the sense of, transing as it pertains to trans-gendering to other categories of subjecthood, aiming to capture the subject's potential to re-form the precepts of subjectivity as it is prescribed for them. I engage these two notions as I reflect on my (countertransference) experience while working with an individual moving across various collective-social frontiers in the process of a religious conversion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00332836
- Volume :
- 109
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Psychoanalytic Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 158859592
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2022.109.3.345