Under Drone Attacks: Lacan and Trauma in International Politics
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https://doi.org/10.61462/cujss.v49i2.731Keywords:
drone, trauma, Lacan, mirror stage, master-signifier, sinthomeAbstract
This article is part of an ongoing project seeking to understand global affairs and international politics through the lens of critical philosophical inquiry and reflection. It aims to analyse state-sanctioned violence and the resulting trauma with a focus on the use of drone technology in the context of the war on terror. The analysis is based on the intellectual perspective of Jacques Lacan, a critical French psychoanalyst. Employing three significant Lacanian concepts in the analysis, namely, the mirror stage, the master-signifier, and the sinthome, it offers an alternative understanding of trauma in conjugation with the formation of American subjectivity and the transformation of the subjects traumatised by drone attacks.
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