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The Eternal Jouissance of the Community: Phantasm, Imagination, and 'Natural Man' in Hobbes

dc.contributor.author Faulkner, Joanne en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T13:42:07Z
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dc.date.issued 2009 en_US
dc.description.abstract The paper considers the part of Thomas Hobbes's 'natural man' in the construction of a culturally shared fantasy regarding pre-social humanity (conceived of as outside obligation), and the marginalization of 'excluded' citizens who are seen in various ways to approximate that fantasy. While Hobbes did not valorize his hypothetical 'natural man,' I argue that his particularly dark elaboration of it lent an ambivalence to this ideal, which thereby enables it to function as a fantasy. With the aid of psychoanalytic theory, the paper explores the relation of Hobbes's psychology of perception to his political philosophy; with particular attention to the resonances between Hobbes's account of the imagination and emotion, and the psychoanalytic notion of fantasy. The fantasy of the pre-contract natural man is then drawn upon to illustrate some concrete social relations which marginalize certain kinds of subject, understood as both 'innocent' and a threat to the community. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/44419
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other Political community en_US
dc.subject.other Psychoanalysis en_US
dc.subject.other Hobbes en_US
dc.title The Eternal Jouissance of the Community: Phantasm, Imagination, and 'Natural Man' in Hobbes en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
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unsw.description.publisherStatement Copyright © 2009 Joanne Faulkner and The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Theory and Event, Volume 12, Issue 3, 2009. Reprinted with permission by The Johns Hopkins University Press. en_US
unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tae.0.0077 en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 3 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Theory and Event en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 12 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Faulkner, Joanne, History & Philosophy, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Humanities & Languages *
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