Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Psychoanalytic perspectives applied to the questioning of identity in Cultural Studies are developed, which implies the implementation of a transdisciplinary methodology. This development is based on the rereading of Freudian formulations on the psychic instance of the Ego Ideal, and the sublimatory process. This approach seeks to interrelate the identity problems with the orientation and incitement of the above-mentioned instance towards the sublimatory, socio-symbolic practices, in which the subjects construct and articulate identities. It raises the objective (real) difficulties subjects would encounter in accessing material and symbolic resources with which identities are articulated and sustained; social conditionings that would hinder the realization of what is impelled by the Ego Ideal. The Ideal, and cultural ideals, are rethought in their diversification and possible contradictions in the identity and identification conflicts of the subjects. It is essential to distinguish the functioning of the symbolic order of imaginaries and their interrelationships. Conflicts handled from the postmodern reconceptualization of identity, exploring the constructions of cultural identities in modern states. This involves their differential logic, which operated by demarcating and highlighting differences, to control and suppress them for cultural identity homogenization. Psychoanalysis is argued as a precedent for the study of this logic.
Author: Brebbia, Juan
Institution: National University of Rosario
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7219977313