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Lacnian examanation of Dont Ask Dont Tell. Contention 1: Ontology ? First and
foremost, we?ll recognize that our discourse shapes reality. ...
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Contention 1: Ontology – First and foremost, we’ll recognize that our discourse shapes reality. However, as powerful as language is, there is always-already a gap between the way the world is and the way we describe it. We’ll refer to this gap, or lack, as “the real.” Just like the feeling you get when you’re the only kid on your block without a PSP, we, as a society, are left feeling traumatized by this fundamental lack inherent in each and every one of us. In order to deal with our un-comfort surrounding the lack, and to help us sleep at night, we create “fantasies” that make us feel better about the world we live in. One such fantasy is that of the modern state, a perpetual war-machine that eliminates all that doesn’t fit within our conception of the world in order to ensure our security.
Edkins 2003 (Jenny; Senior Lecturer in International Politics – University of Wales-Aberystwyth) Trauma and the Memory of Politics p. 11-14
In the psychoanalytic account the subject is formed around a lack, and in the face of trauma. We become who we are by finding our place within the social order and family structures into which we are born. That social order is produced in symbolic terms, through language. Language does not just name things that are already there in the world. Language divides up the world in particular ways to produce for every social grouping what it calls 'reality'. Each language - each symbolic or social order has its own way of doing this. Crucially, none of these are complete; none of them can find a place for everything. This is a logical limitation, not a question of a symbolic or social order being insufficiently developed. Completeness or closure is impossible. There is always, inevitably, something that is missed out, something that cannot be symbolised, and this is one part of what psychoanalytic theory calls 'the real'. In its birth into the symbolic or social order, into language, the subject is formed around, and through a...
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