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Psychoanalysis, cultures of anarchy, and ontological insecurity
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Cash, John |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | When ontological insecurity looms, what comes next? Is chaos the sole alternative to the maintenance of established role-identities and routines? Or is there a more complex set of possible responses to the dread threat of ontological insecurity? The principal approach to ontological security in International Relations (IR) relies unduly on Giddens' account. Consequently, this approach fails to adequately capture both the variety of ways in which coherent and continuous identities can be maintained and the variety of ways in which the available cultural repertoire can support ontological security differently when challenged. Typically, ontological security is re-established, prior to collapse, through re-balancing of the cultural repertoire to give broader scope to an alternative cultural form and the qualitatively different practices it organizes. Due to misrecognition, this reorganization may proceed without disturbing the ontological security of states-in-interaction. Unconscious processes, encoded into cultural forms, are integral to such variable defenses against ontological insecurity. A re-conceptualization that regards Wendt's cultures of anarchy, and their qualitatively different modes of relating, as dynamically co-present within cultural repertoires, but with potentially variable weightings, complements this approach to ontological in/security. |
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| Ending Page | 321 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 306 |
| ISSN | 17529719 |
| e-ISSN | 17529727 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1752971920000147 |
| Journal | International Theory |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2020-07-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | International Theory International Relations Ontological Insecurity Psychoanalytic Theory Cultures of Anarchy Cultural Unconscious Unconscious Defense Mechanisms |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Philosophy Political Science and International Relations Law |
