Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito

Neill, Calum

Abstract

This paper explores a Lacanian approach towards inter-subjectivity and a consideration of how such an approach might impact constructively on social psychology. Drawing largely on the work of Bracha Ettinger, the paper will consider questions of alterity and the possibility of an alternative approach to thinking relations with others and will seek to elaborate a new vocabulary for such a thinking through Ettinger's use of such border concepts as trans-subjectivity and wit(h)nessing. Through the foregoing, the paper will seek to critically reconsider the place of the social in social psychology and the possibility of thinking the social in a manner not reducible to separateness and self-identity.

Citation

Neill, C. (2008). Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito. Subjectivity, 24(1), 325-339. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2008.21

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Jul 30, 2008
• Publication Date: 2008-09
• Deposit Date: Jan 17, 2012
• Print ISSN: 1755-6341
• Electronic ISSN: 1755-635X
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 325-339
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2008.21
• Keywords: inter-subjectivity; Lacan; alterity; Bracha Ettinger; trans-subjectivity; wit(h)nessing; matrixial; slef; social
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4899
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/sub.2008.21