Anxiety, Ambivalence and Sublimation: Ontological In/security and the World Risk Society

Year 2022, , 133 - 149, 09.04.2022

John Cash

https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.1094378

Abstract

This article aims to expand the social-theoretical and psychoanalytic range of research on ontological in/ security, by exploring parallel concerns addressed by Beck, Kristeva, Butler and Zizek. These include, first, the psychic roots of othering processes and their encoding into cultural repertoires. Second, the difficulties and possibilities of displacing othering processes within national and international politics. Third, the disruptive effects of globalising processes on the symbolic efficiency of cultures and on their encoded defences against ontological insecurity. Fourth, the crucial significance for political and international relations of the qualitative characteristics of those defences against ontological insecurity that gain predominance within cultural repertoires and their variable norms of recognition. Likewise, the significance of those norms of recognition that challenge established norms and successfully reorganise cultural repertoires.

Keywords

Psychoanalysis, Cultures of Anarchy, Symbolic Efficiency, Norms of Recognition, Othering Processes

Kaygı, Kararsızlık ve Yüceltme: Ontolojik Güven(siz)lik ve Dünya Risk Toplumu

Abstract

Bu makale, Beck, Kristeva, Butler ve Zizek tarafından ele alınan paralel kaygıları araştırarak, ontolojik güven(siz) liğe ilişkin sosyo-teorik ve psikanalitik araştırma kapsamını genişletmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bunlar, ilk olarak, ötekileştirme süreçlerinin psişik köklerini ve bunların kültürel dağarcıklara kodlanmasını içermektedir. İkincisi, ulusal ve uluslararası siyasette ötekileştirme süreçlerinin yerinden edilmesinin zorlukları ve olanaklarıdır. Üçüncüsü, küreselleşme süreçlerinin kültürlerin sembolik yeterliliği ve ontolojik güvensizliğe karşı kodlanmış savunmaları üzerindeki yıkıcı etkileridir. Dördüncüsü ise, kültürel dağarcıklarda ağırlık kazanan ontolojik güvensizliğe karşı bu savunmaların niteliksel özelliklerinin ve değişken tanınma normlarının siyasi ve uluslararası ilişkiler için hayati önemidir. Benzer şekilde, yerleşik normlara meydan okuyan ve kültürel dağarcıkları başarılı bir şekilde yeniden organize eden tanıma normlarının önemidir.

Keywords

Psikanaliz, Anarşi Kültürü, Sembolik Yeterlilik, Tanınma Normları, Ötekileştirme Süreçleri

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