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The Imaginary
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08 Dec 2014
TL;DR: Lozada et al. as mentioned in this paper dealt with the triad: polarisation, representation and social imaginaries, focusing on the controversial representations that emerge in a context marked by sociopolitical conflict.
Abstract: Please address all correspondence to: Dr Mireya Lozada, Instituto de Psicologia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. (email mireyaloza@gmail.com)
Papers on Social Representations
Volume 23, pages 21.1-21.16 (2014)
Peer Reviewed Online Journal
ISSN 1021-5573
© 2014 The Authors
[http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/psr/]
Us or Them? Social Representations and Imaginaries of the Other in Venezuela
MIREYA LOZADA
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Polarisation, which seems to have established itself and spread worldwide as a mechanism for power and social control, has become more acute in Latin America, a region of long standing socioeconomic and political conflicts. In Venezuela, in the context of the “Bolivarian revolution”, although political confrontation has encouraged social participation processes, it has also led to an acute social polarization and to controversial representations held in the imaginary of the enemy-Other, which generate rivalries and struggles between opposing groups, in a climate of emotional exacerbation, mistrust and collective fear. In this context, marked by polarisation and intergroup violence, there is a progressive fracture of symbolic practices, which hinders consensus, generating antagonistic relationships in a permanent struggle for positions of real or symbolic power. From the experience of research developed during the 2002-2013 period at the Universidad Central of Venezuela, and the experience derived from programs of mediation and psychosocial attention developed with different political groups, some lines of problematisation arise that I will set forth here. The article deals with the triad: polarisation, representation and social imaginaries, focusing on the controversial representations that emerge in a context marked by sociopolitical conflict.
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: Pecora as mentioned in this paper surveys the modern progress of an idea that is never far from the centre of social controversy and political struggle, focusing on modernity's fascination with real and imaginary households whose archaic resonances recall the patron-client relations, gift exchanges and magical thinking of the past.
Abstract: In "Households of the Soul", Vincent Pecora surveys the modern progress of an idea that is never far from the centre of social controversy and political struggle. Pecora focuses on modernity's fascination with real and imaginary households whose archaic resonances recall the patron-client relations, gift exchanges and magical thinking of the past. He examines a wide range of literary works and critical issues - from Tennyson's "Ulysses" to Joyce's, from Morgan's anthropology and Durkheim's sociology to Baudrillard's symbolic economy, from Hegel's ethics to George Gilder's entrepreneurial potlatch. Pecora's compelling analysis is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive account of the modern era's atavistic spiritual household.
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18 Nov 2016
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for differential member identifications with the leader, i.e., the group is bound together by narcissistic identifications among the members who have each incorporated important aspects of the leader into their ego-ideal.
Abstract: This paper is concerned with the idea of the group as a signifying chain. Group elements, e.g., roles, subgroups, group episodes, and social acts, are viewed as signifiers open to particular significations each of which may be represented within the imaginary history of the group, i.e., in particular people and events. This theoretical position is arrived at via an application of Lacan's ideas to implications drawn from an examination of Freud's works on narcissism and group psychology. To Freud, the group is bound together by narcissistic identifications among the members who have each incorporated important aspects of the leader into his/her ego-ideal. The myth of the primal horde exemplifies this basic group structure. Taking this myth as a basis for further hypotheses about groups, this paper argues for differential member identifications with the leader. These differential identifications seem to be the imaginary effects of the signifying chain (group structure) that is anchored by the central signif...
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TL;DR: The authors examine the European debate about the authority of cultural origins through a commentary on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and, following the Lacanian notion of the imaginary, describes the issue of authentic beginnings as the problem of the originary.
Abstract: The problem of Orientalism as a system of classification that maps out the cultural and political boundaries between East and West has been widely discussed within the humanities and social sciences, but it has been less overtly prominent as an issue in the specific field of archaeology. This absence is peculiar, given the legitimating role of classical archaeology as an account of the primitive occupation of space. We can initially explore the question of archaeological Orientalism in terms of Karl Jaspers’s notion of axial ages. This concept is useful in the analysis of what we might call the construction of a ‘privileged space’ in European philosophy. This article examines the European debate about the authority of cultural origins through a commentary on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and, following the Lacanian notion of the imaginary, describes the issue of authentic beginnings as the problem of ‘the originary’. In postmodern social theory, Heidegger has been a dominant influence in the deconstr...
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