Traversing Fantasies,Activating Desires: Economic Geography,Activist Research,and Psychoanalytic Methodology |
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Authors: | Stephen Healy |
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Affiliation: | Worcester State College |
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Abstract: | In this article I recount the ways that key concepts in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory—the relationship between language and desire, fantasy and subject formation, ethics and the traversal of fantasy—have enabled a novel methodological approach to activist research. Psychoanalysis allows us to recast research as a process of encountering and traversing fantasies, which is simultaneously a process of engendering new representations, desires, subjectivities, and societies. |
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Keywords: | activist research economic geography psychoanalysis |
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