Encountering the Real’: Jacques Lacan in Thailand crackdowns
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https://doi.org/10.61462/cujss.v46i1.1144Keywords:
collective trauma, the Real, signifier, fantasy, object of desireAbstract
The article endeavors to revisit Thailand crackdowns in a Lacanian perspective. The main suggestion is that the encountering of the collective trauma of both the Yellow-Shirts and the Red-Shirts is suggestible to be the Real that exotically posited in Lacanian psychoanalysis. By examining history of Thai politics during the pinnacle of the crackdown years, notably 2008 and 2010, the article shows a humble attempt to introduce Lacan’s theory to be integrative to history of politics in Thailand. The expectation is to demonstrate how Lacan’s concepts such as signifier, the Real, fantasy, and object of desire are instrumental in rethinking crackdowns in Thailand in an innovative and critical fashion.
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