What they do not know is that their social reality itself, their activity, is guided by an illusion, by a fetishistic inversion. What they overlook, what they misrecognize, is not the reality but the illusion which is structuring their reality, their real social activity. They know very well how things really are, but still they…
I’ve been thinking about how I used the concept of the big Other to describe the manner by which Ranil Wickremesinghe, the current Sri Lankan President, functions with a section of the electorate that supports him. Recently, after some theatrics in Parliament by him, I referenced the (non-Lacanian) strict father model. Both these views came…
The jockeying for voters between the NPP/JVP and the SJB provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the importance of ideology and identity for a political party. As things stand, polling suggests while ex-SLPP voters are moving to other main parties, the greatest number have gone to the JVP. A question that I’ve had since…
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