Open AccessThe Great Resistance
Author(s) -
Stuart Winchester
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nordicum-mediterraneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1670-6242
DOI - 10.33112/nm.3.2.10
Subject(s) - psyche , institution , sublimation (psychology) , frontier , social institution , resistance (ecology) , relation (database) , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , psychoanalysis , psychology , political science , social science , law , computer science , ecology , database , biology
Sublimation, in Castoriadis' scheme, is where our relation to what is known exists. This "frontier concept" in which 'reality' and ‘unreality’ flux is a two-way affair. On one hand the psyche replaces private objects of cathexis with "objects which exist and which have worth in and through their social institution". On the other it facilitates "the positing, in and through the institution [of society], of forms and significations.