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Structural Displacement Theory: A Lacanian Psychosocial Theory of Displacement, Body, Home, and the Other

by William Gomes
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781066657926
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Pages: 596
  • Original Price: USD 60.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 935 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Refugees

Structural Displacement Theory develops William Gomes's original Lacanian psychosocial account of displacement as a disturbance in the co-ordinates through which a life can be spoken, inhabited, recognised and sustained.

Against accounts that reduce displacement to movement, legal status, trauma, humanitarian suffering, adaptation or resilience, the book argues that displacement reorganises the subject's relation to speech, body, time, law, fantasy, mourning, race, institution, faith, non-faith, social bond, jouissance, home and the Other.

Across a wide theoretical architecture, Gomes develops the co-ordinates of liveability, the Structural Displacement Matrix, the Institutional Other, bureaucratic temporality, administrative legibility, sensory-symbolic displacement, micro-identificatory disturbance, the libidinal border economy, moral injury as collapse of the moral Other, and subjective re-coordination.

The result is a non-diagnostic theory of displacement for psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies, refugee and forced migration studies, critical psychology, law, political theory, theology, trauma studies, social work, pastoral practice and institutional life.

Gomes, William: - William Gomes is a British-Bangladeshi human rights advocate, anti-racism campaigner and doctoral researcher in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. His work brings Lacanian psychoanalysis, psychosocial theory, critical race thought, and the lived realities of displacement into sustained theoretical conversation.

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