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    The relational ethics of conflict and identity

    Frosh, Stephen (2011) The relational ethics of conflict and identity. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 16 , pp. 225-243. ISSN 1088-0763.

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    Abstract

    The contemporary psychoanalytically inflected vocabulary of relational ethics centres on acknowledgement, witnessing and responsibility. It has become an important code for efforts to connect with otherness across fractures of hurt, oppression and suffering. One can see the deployment of this vocabulary to challenge patterns of exclusion and dehumanisation in zones of intense political conflict in many situations in which destructive hatred reigns. This paper traces some of the use of and disputes over this ‘acknowledgement-based’ relational ethics in the recent work of Jessica Benjamin and Judith Butler. The field of application is their response to Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, given their position as Jews. The challenge of the acknowledgement agenda leads back to an issue of general concern – the degree to which relational ethics can prise open apparently closed and defensive psychosocial identities.

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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: “This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. The definitive publisher-authenticated version (Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, September 2011, v.16, pp.225-243) is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2010.31
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): relational ethics, recognition, acknowledgement, conflict, Jewish identity, Israel–Palestine
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics (MAMSIE)
    Depositing User: Stephen Frosh
    Date Deposited: 07 Oct 2011 08:23
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:56
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4188

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