Psychoanalysis, catastrophe & social action

In: Philosophy and psychoanalysis

Abstract

"The author builds her conceptual arguments for trans-subjectivity through a psyche/social reading of Kristeva's theory of signifiance (sublimation), Lacan's 1945 essay on collective logic, Heidegger's (secondly Jung) secular reading of the apostle Paul's Christian revolution, and Žižek, Badiou and Jung's conception of the neighbor within a differentiated humanity. The author illustrates her thesis through clinical illustrations, an auto-ethnographic study of the emergence of an AIDS clinic, and an accounting of trans-subjectivity situated in the reals of U.S. black revolutionary transitional time enflamed by the killing of George Floyd by a police officer and manifesting in Killer Mike's speech on behalf of differentiating African American identity"--