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Wake Up Strong: From Terra Nullius to Recognition
Author(s) -
Nathan Pamela
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of applied psychoanalytic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1556-9187
pISSN - 1742-3341
DOI - 10.1002/aps.1571
Subject(s) - dialectic , psychoanalysis , hegelianism , aesthetics , psychology , sociology , philosophy , epistemology
In this paper the importance of psychological recognition as a life and death matter is developed referencing the writings of psychoanalysts Winnicott and Benjamin and philosopher Hegel. I suggest that radical hope, a notion developed by Lear and radical doubt can provide a mode of story transformation from a state of mind of terra nullius to one of recognition. Staying in the “eye of the storm,” a place Bion asks us to be – a place inherent in the world of trauma – can become a holding place of lived and living emotional experience, metamorphosing raging turbulence into dynamic anchorage, dialectic potential spaces and fluid, vital, new beginnings. I show how the Men's Tjilirra Movement (MTM) embodies recognition, continuity, connections, aliveness and transformations from a world of trauma and cultural rupture.