OTHERNESS AND EXISTENCE: RE-READING SCHMITT THROUGH A FREUDIAN-LACANIAN POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
OTHERNESS AND EXISTENCE: RE-READING SCHMITT THROUGH A FREUDIAN-LACANIAN POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Carl Schmitt handles the political within the concept of externality. For Carl Schmitt, any political organization is constituted by an exteriority by which society can gain its meaning. This idea resembles a Freudian-Lacanian paradigm that links existence with meaning which is external to being. For Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, meaning can be established only by constructing its existence in the eyes of the other. Thus, in both Freud-Lacan and Schmitt, the concept of the Other points to an ambiguity that sets out the meaning of existence from the outside. This exteriority means that any consciousness of existence must be referred to with an Otherness. This article aims to discuss the partnership of Freud Lacan and Schmitt in order to investigate how the term “politics” maybe understood in the context of psychoanalytical approaches. Understanding politics by psycho-analytical concepts helps to deepen the meaning of politics because politics is also a phenomenon which should be conceptualized by the subconscious processes. So, the action of relating politics with the concept of psychoanalysis helps to understand how politics canbe realized and imagined in the social conscious which is the core element of political existence.

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