Otherness in Politics, Otherness in Psychoanalysis: The Same in Otherness

Abstract

this essay is an attempt to explore the status of otherness in politics and psychoanalysis by analyzing and bringing into question the seemingly self-evident relationship of the mutual exclusion between politics and psychoanalysis. in an attempt to move beyond the traditionally hostile polarities of the singular and the universal and to reverse the usual perspective, the author considers the relationship between psychoanalysis and politics from the point of view of the community “for all” constituted through a complex practice of disidentification and production of the “whatever” singularities.