The Sublime Object of Genocide: Writing During/After the Destruction of Palestine
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antagonism, psychoanalysis, Gaza, real, sublimationAbstract
This paper focuses on the various conceptions and dimensions of the Real. Through Badiou’s formulation of the ‘passion for the Real’ of the 20th century and various attempts at dealing with it to the psychoanalytic clinic of the Real. It will be argued that a reformulation of the relation to the Real is needed due to the change in the very structure of the social field. Following Zupančič’s argument of redoubled disavowal, it will be shown that a very different passion is at stake. Placing this argument at the center of the ongoing genocide in Palestine and rethinking what it would mean to have a ‘civilized attitude towards death’, as Freud suggested, in times of accelerated conflicts. At the very core of the antagonism, a new sublime object is produced.
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