Higher education can function as an important marker of seriousness in fields characterized by diffuse professional standards. Using the case of a fine arts institute, the article outlines the role of higher education in promoting the interconnection of a professional and individual subjectivity; being an artist is not merely something one does but something one is. By primarily examining inter...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to research on organizational identity by developing a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, the author draws on Lacanian theorizing to explore how organizational identity discourse is informed by imaginary constructions of subjectivity. It is proposed that the collective construction of coherent, unitary and definably organizational identity disc...

“Information Extraction” systems, face a crucial problem of false hits because of a number of reasons, observations show that a large number of these false hits are due to the presence of subjectivity in the text. This observation motivates the exploration of the notion of using subjectivity analysis to decrease the number of false hits by the Information Extraction systems. “Subjectivity Analy...

This article introduces a perspective in which questions at a psychological grain of analysis are integrated with a broad societal frame of interpretation, drawing on interdisciplinary feminist writings that provide alternative ways to theorize the social. It is argued that understanding the constitution of subjectivity, ‘self’ and thought requires a societal-level model of the social with both...

This is the second of essays on existential-ontological ground otherness, in which we see this as essentially entwined with our personhood and personal identities. We analyze irony both a “mechanism” constituting these very identities an act revealing their self-altering nature. Irony view — informed by Kierkegaard, phenomenology, psychoanalysis subtle existential strategy means subjectivity (n...

Conscious experiences are supposed by many to be subjective in the sense of being perspectival or from a point-of-view (see, for example Nagel 1974, 1986 and Tye 1995). Allegedly, the subjectivity of consciousness is beyond the grasp of science, which is objective (Nagel 1986). If you wanted a scientific understanding of consciousness, how would you solve the problem of subjectivity? One strate...