TY - JOUR
T1 - Traversing fantasies, activating desires : economic geography, activist research, and psychoanalytic methodology
AU - Healy, Stephen
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/562822
U2 - 10.1080/00330124.2010.501266
DO - 10.1080/00330124.2010.501266
M3 - Article
SN - 0033-0124
VL - 62
SP - 496
EP - 506
JO - Professional Geographer
JF - Professional Geographer
IS - 4
ER -