Traversing fantasies, activating desires : economic geography, activist research, and psychoanalytic methodology

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    Abstract

    In this article I recount the ways that key concepts in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory-the relationship between language and desire, fantasy and subject formation, ethics and the traversal of fantasy-have enabled a novel methodological approach to activist research. Psychoanalysis allows us to recast research as a process of encountering and traversing fantasies, which is simultaneously a process of engendering new representations, desires, subjectivities, and societies.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)496-506
    Number of pages11
    JournalProfessional Geographer
    Volume62
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010

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