Lecture in the framework of the DESW Lecture Series

As it is considered common sense in psychoanalysis, Lacanian theories of subjectivation accentuate the unpleasant aspect of being trapped in a subjective form and its repetitions rather than focusing on the ‘positive’ and light-hearted songs of freedom of what is deemed to be only a historically contingent social construction.

This ‘pessimistic’ accent shifts the focus to mechanisms of internalisation of oppression; it refers to dynamics in which the imagination that one is ‘subversive’, ‘resistant’ or has created or experienced a discrimination-free space of ‘inclusion’, keeps disintegrating.

In the terms of Lacanian psychoanalysis, the lecture will unfold why every imagination of inclusion contains a momentum of misrecognition. Every image (of  inclusion) will miss a point, it will fall short of something. At the same time, we must continue to imagine, to dream of a better world.

Organisation
Prof. Dr. Boris Traue
Institute of Social Research and Interventions, University of Luxembourg

Contact
boris.traue[@]uni.lu
isi[@]uni.lu