{"id":1432,"date":"2009-01-10T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T21:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2010-05-25T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T00:38:12","slug":"psychic-life-of-power-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/01\/10\/psychic-life-of-power-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"prior desire for social existence"},"content":{"rendered":"

JB. The Psychic Life of Power<\/span>. Stanford UP. 1997 pp. 18-19<\/span><\/p>\n

If power works not merely to dominate or oppress existing subjects, but also to form subjects, what is this formation?<\/span><\/p>\n

… and account of subjection, it seems, must be traced in the turns of psychic life … in the peculiar turning of a subject against itself<\/span> that takes place in acts of self-reproach, conscience, and melancholia that work in tandem with processes of social regulation <\/strong>18-19<\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude42 Remember! The formation of the subject takes place through the incorporation of norms.
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\nHow does the subjection of desire require and institute the desire for subjection? … how are we to account for the desire for the norm and for subjection more generally in terms of a prior desire for social existence<\/strong>, a desire exploited by regulatory power?
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a) the formation of the subject involves the regulatory formation of the psyche, including how might we rejoin the discourse of power with the discourse of psychoanalysis: and<\/span><\/p>\n

b) make such a conception of the subject work as a notion of political agency in postliberatory times.
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Incorporation<\/em>? page 19, she says:<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet, if we refuse the ontological dualism that posits the separation of the political and the psychic, it seems crucial to offer a critical account of psychic subjection in terms of the regulatory and productive effects of power. If forms of regulatory power are sustained in part through the formation of a subject, and if that formation takes place according to the requirements of power, specifically, as the incorporation of norms, then a theory of subject formation must give an account of this process of incorporation<\/span><\/strong>, and the notion of incorporation must be interrogated to ascertain the psychic topography it assumes. How does the subjection of desire require and institute the desire for<\/em> subjection?<\/span><\/p>\n

In claiming that social norms are internalized, we have not yet explained what incorporation or, more generally, internalization<\/span> is, what it means for a norm to become internalized or what happens to the norm in the process of internalization (19).<\/span><\/p>\n

The prior desire for social existence<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where social categories guarantee a recognizable and enduring social existence, the embrace of such categories, even as they work in the service of subjection, is often preferred to no social existence at all (20).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But if the very production of the subject and the ofrmation of that wil are the consequences of a primary subordination, then the vulnerability of the subject to a power not of its own making is unavoidable. That vulnerability qualifies the subject as an exploitable kind of being.
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JB. The Psychic Life of Power. Stanford UP. 1997 pp. 18-19 If power works not merely to dominate or oppress existing subjects, but also to form subjects, what is this formation? … and account of subjection, it seems, must be traced in the turns of psychic life … in the peculiar turning of a subject … Continue reading “prior desire for social existence”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,78,55,16,89,90,15],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency","category-butler","category-normative","category-ontology","category-power","category-resistance","category-subjectivity","tag-psychiclife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}