{"id":2595,"date":"2009-03-29T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T18:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2012-11-15T17:47:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T22:47:38","slug":"thiem-desire-foreclosure-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/03\/29\/thiem-desire-foreclosure-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"thiem desire foreclosure repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thiem, Annika. <em>Unbecoming Subjects: Judith Butler, Moral Philosophy and Critical Responsibility<\/em>. New York: Fordham UP, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>[D]esires are formed insofar as they cannot simply take any object; rather object choices take place only in relation to norms (43).<\/p>\n<p>Despite being inevitable, the loss occasioned by foreclosure is never prior to the social but occurs through the horizon of and in relation to social norms. These can and must be interrogated, criticized, and possibly reworked and changed (45). The <strong>ego-ideal <\/strong>controls the desires of the ego, demands the repression of certain desires, and becomes the agency of producing and preserving precisely the desires it seeks to regulate.<\/p>\n<p>It is not possible to seek recourse to discovering more original versions of desire that might precede social regulation.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">Further, matters become complicated with regard to attempts to rework patterns of social regulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Critique cannot mean simply to impart knowledge and give reasons about what is repressive, as if this means that we could then simply get rid of these conditions. Instead, critique comes to be bound to an archaeology of passionate attachments, and such an archaeology means an unbecoming practice of undoing the very subject and its passionate investments in that which it is opposed.\u00a0 Such an archaeology will constantly run into its own limits, because these attachments are not transparent and hence readily avowable <\/strong>(46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thiem, Annika. Unbecoming Subjects: Judith Butler, Moral Philosophy and Critical Responsibility. New York: Fordham UP, 2008. [D]esires are formed insofar as they cannot simply take any object; rather object choices take place only in relation to norms (43). Despite being inevitable, the loss occasioned by foreclosure is never prior to the social but occurs through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/03\/29\/thiem-desire-foreclosure-repression\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;thiem desire foreclosure repression&#8221;<\/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":[84,78,138,110,111,112,18,94,15,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abject","category-butler","category-butlerethics","category-constitutive-outside","category-desire","category-foreclosure","category-political","category-sexual-difference","category-subjectivity","category-the-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","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=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/6540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}