Anxiety, Ambivalence and Sublimation: Ontological In/security and the World Risk Society

This article aims to expand the social-theoretical and psychoanalytic range of research on ontological in/ security, by exploring parallel concerns addressed Beck, Kristeva, Butler Zizek. These include, first, psychic roots othering processes their encoding into cultural repertoires. Second, difficulties possibilities displacing within national international politics. Third, disruptive effects globalising symbolic efficiency cultures encoded defences against insecurity. Fourth, crucial significance for political relations qualitative characteristics those insecurity that gain predominance repertoires variable norms recognition. Likewise, recognition challenge established successfully reorganise