Tournament: Psychoanalysis K | Round: 6 | Opponent: | Judge:
The intellectualization of the 1AC is no more than a projection of responsibility---the idea that they’ve come to a debate tournament and demanded political action is laughable and demonstrative of their delusions
Dodds 12 Joseph, MPhil, Psychoanalytic Studies, Sheffield University, UK, MA, Psychoanalytic Studies, Sheffield University, UK BSc, Psychology and Neuroscience, Manchester University, UK, Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a member of several other professional organizations such as the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos p 48
The split can also take the form of an intellectualization, separating abstract awareness of
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barrier to action can be partly artificially induced to protect us from feeling.
The affect refused in intellectualization can also be dealt with through displacement onto a different
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exasperating existing hatred of immigrants or conflicts such as the War on Terror.
Scapegoating mechanisms are always around but they tend to increase during times of anxiety and
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, one burial never seems enough). As Marshall (2005) writes:
Climate change is deeply threatening to anyone whose world view sees increasing personal consumption as
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friend shows you their holiday tan and you will see what I mean.
One relevant example here is the Czech President Vaclav Klaus who not only denies outright the existence of anthropogenic climate change, but even compares environmentalism with Nazism, Fascism and Stalinism (Dujisin 2007). Others evoke the phrase 'ecofascist' to describe anyone with a vaguely green agenda. All these responses need to be explored by psychoanalytically informed social theorists and environmental researchers.
In terms of displacement, it is interesting also to consider Marshall's (2005)
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feng shui, they stocked not a single volume on home energy efficiency.
In the face of a problem which 80 of people say is a major
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daunting and terrifying environmental problems ... with manageable and entertaining pseudo-environmentalism.
Every Symbolic order necessitates some forms of safe transgression, where the 1AC is no more than the fantasy that we’ve created to convince ourselves that we’re doing something good---a symbiotic relationship is created, with the 1AC’s criticism and the ideological order mutually reinforcing each other
Stavrakakis 12 Yannis Stavrakakis, Associate Professor at the School of Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, "SYMPOSIUM: FANTASY AND MARKETS: Beyond the Spirits of Capitalism? Prohibition, Enjoyment, and Social Change" Cardozo Law Review August, 2012 Cardozo Law Review 33 Cardozo L. Rev. 2289
If, today, the battle between austerity and spending, the return of ascetic
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, conceals an extimate relation of mutual engagement producing a single bipolar system?
My main hypothesis is that, apart from the simple case of straightforward synergy between
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camouflages, disavows, a synergy reproducing the hegemonic structure/order. n26
In fact, even a degree of transgression is often implicitly encouraged by a dominant
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charting an alternative course beyond the short-circuit present in such cases.
Ideological transgression is a continuation of the existing order—the power of the protest structurally depends upon the continued authority of the system. The affirmative functions as a carnivalesque reversal of authority—we make a gesture of non-compliance that posits us as the “real” masters of fate
Zizek 95 Slavoj, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, LAW AND THE POSTMODERN MIND: SUPEREGO BY DEFAULT, Cardozo Law Review, 1995, 16 Cardozo L. Rev. 925
In the traditional patriarchal society, the inherent transgression of the law assumes the form
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the cynic the clearest example of one obsessed precisely with the national thing?
The alternative is to psychoanalyze the 1AC---the fantasy will reveal itself as long as we continue asking questions to expose their concealment of the lack---in other words, it’s your job to confuse and frustrate them via a refusal to partake in their politics---this also crushes the permutation
Dean 6 Jodi, Prof of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2006, Zizek’s Politics. Xviii-xx
Žižek emphasizes that Lacan conceptualized this excessive place, this place without guarantees, in
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we can organize, consider, and formalize our experiences as ideological subjects.