The Imaginary

About: The Imaginary is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4807 publications have been published within this topic receiving 87663 citations.

Untangling the radical imaginaries of the Indignados' movement: Commons, autonomy and ecologism

Abstract: The 'movements of the squares' involved first and foremost an awakening or re-discovering of the radical imagination both in the square encampments, and in later projects created with the movements' decentralizations The new alternative projects born after the square have materialized the movements' radical imaginaries in urban environments, extending and deepening concerns of broad political change over everyday life Based on ethnographic work on the Indignados' movement in the city of Barcelona, this paper delves more particularly into three Indignant urban projects It untangles three common and interlinked radical imaginaries both embodied and actualized in participants' social practices, and further orienting their future visions: commons, autonomy and ecologism Scrutinizing their meaning, it also sheds light on connected issues such new ways of interfacing with local state authorities and redefining the boundaries between the public and the common It shows that the ecologism imaginary cannot be properly grasped if disconnected from the other two imaginaries, and argues that a transformative eco-politics can only be claimed as such if it is able to articulate such an integrated vision typical of 'socio-environmental movements'

The Presence of The Analyst in Lacanian Treatment.

Abstract: Transference implies the actualization of the analyst in the analytic encounter. Lacan developed this idea through the syntagm presence of the analyst. In the course of his seminars, however, two completely different presences emerge, with major implications for how the treatment is directed. In the light of Lacan's idea that the transference is constituted in Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary dimensions, it can be seen how in his early work the analyst's presence is a phenomenon at the crossroads between signifiers and images. From the 1960s onward, however, the analyst's presence comes to necessarily involve the Real. This means it points to the moment at which symbolization reaches its limits. The clinical implications of this later interpretation of the presence of the analyst as incorporating the Real are manifold and affect psychoanalytic practice with regard to the position and the interventions of the analyst. Specifically, interventions targeted at provoking changes in defenses against experiences of excess or senselessness are discussed and illustrated with case vignettes and a published case. With transference considered "the navel of the treatment," the necessity that traumatic material will emerge in relation to the analyst becomes clear.

La innovación social y el nuevo discurso del Management : limitaciones y alternativas

Abstract: In previous times discourses on social innovation were built on the development of collective projects, but nowadays they are organized around a new symbolic imaginary in which notions such as personal change (permeated by psychological explanations and a fascination about the emotional) have become the key variable explaining the social. In this sense, the current hegemonic management discourses truly represent this trend as they build success in job careers around the mastery of certain behaviour skills. In this paper, our aim is to critically analyse the prescriptions that these new and powerful managerial discourses while discussing possible alternatives from views such as Critical Management Studies.

Creative Subversions: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary

Abstract: "Creative Subversions explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through iconic images of Canadian identity -- and the contradictory and contested meanings they evoke. These benign, even kitschy, images, she argues, are haunted by ideas about race, masculinity, and sexuality that circulated during the formative years of Anglo-Canadian nationhood." -- Site web de l'editeur.

Imagining the university of the future: eyes wide open? Expanding the imaginary through critical and feminist ruminations in and on the university

Abstract: This selected collection of papers arises out of an Economic and Social Research Council seminar series entitled ‘Imagining the University of the Future’ devised by Valerie Hey and Louise Morley. T...