We've Always Been Borderline: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder as the Site of Radical Subjectivity

Authors

  • Bethany A. Morris

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i71.191

Keywords:

acan, feminism, erotism, becoming-woman

Abstract

This research investigates the subject within the Borderline Personality Diagnosis as the site of the Lacanian feminine. It uses Bataille's concept of erotism to conceptualize the surplus jouissance that Lacan articulates in Seminar XX, and then uses Deleuze and Guattari's understanding of becoming-woman to begin to think through the potential this idea may have for contemporary politics of subjectivity. In doing so, it attempts to build a bridge between two seemingly divisive thinkers in Western French philosophy, as well as enter into a dialogue about alternative modes of subjectivity by investigating those modes which have been historically inarticulable or inassimilable.     

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Published

2018-02-28

How to Cite

Morris, B. A. (2018). We’ve Always Been Borderline: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder as the Site of Radical Subjectivity. Free Associations, (71), 51–64. https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i71.191

Issue

No. 71 (2017)

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Articles

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