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Love Thy Neighbour
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Abstract This article will attempt to interrogate the title of the conference, Human Rights: Why do we respond and why do we turn away? via the tension that exists between the questions why do we respond? and why do we turn away? This tension will be explored from the perspective of psychoanalytic discourse,... view more
This article will attempt to interrogate the title of the conference, Human Rights: Why do we respond and why do we turn away? via the tension that exists between the questions why do we respond? and why do we turn away? This tension will be explored from the perspective of psychoanalytic discourse, departing from Freud’s work Civilisation and its Discontents wherein he asserts that there is a fundamental impossibility at the heart of human subjectivity to ‘love thy neighbour as thyself,’ because there is an inherent division (spaltung), an alterity or otherness at the very experience of being. This otherness, Lacan, in his return to Freud, will formulate as being related to the fact that we are speaking-beings, parlêtres, parasited by language, subject of the unconscious and the real of a body with which each must find a way.... view less
Keywords
human rights; psychoanalysis; Freud, S.; Lacan, J.; subjectivity
Classification
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
Aggression; Alterity; Civilisation and its discontents; Speaking-subject; Unconscious; Violence
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 36-40
Journal
Studies in Arts and Humanities, 6 (2020) 1
ISSN
2009-8278
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0