Abstract It has become the convention to associate exposure of foundational indeterminacies in a state’s identity with change. Many ontological security and poststructuralist works international relations argue that revealing such uncertainties is threat status quo—maintaining existing narratives practices used for constituting subjectivity. The article claims revelation does not necessarily le...

The article touches upon the actual problem of vocational education development subjective attitude students to educational and professional activities in light requirements dynamic socio-economic processes, modern labor market. current stage a civilization, total informatization, places high demands on self-development, self-education, self-improvement professional. One important skills our ti...

socio-political metatheories based on ontological and epistemological foundations, could be devided to different objectivist and subjectivist fronts. according to such a devide, different interpretation of individual-society and agent-structure could be renderd. in contrast,critical metatheories that seek to transcend the contradiction between objectivity-subjectivity in the individual-society ...

People living with disability or chronic illness often use practices of care to construct a version of life they are satisfied with. Drawing from a narrative-based study with people living with motor neuron disease (MND), I show how one couple tried to be recognized as active agents in their life, although oscillating between positions of less and more power. Through an examination of the pract...

Slavoj Žižek has made it his essential project to renew an understanding of G.W.F. Hegel’s subjectivity by means of the psychoanalytic theory and practice of Jacques Lacan. One crucial element in such an endeavor is Lacan’s notion of the lamella, a particular understanding of excessive desire as indestructible and exterior to the self. I would like to investigate Žižek’s characterization of the...