Giorgio Agamben and Resistance

Bridging the Consulting Room and the Political in the Anthropocene Age

Authors

  • Ryan Williams LaMothe Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology

Keywords:

Climate change, Inoperativity, Impotentiality, Resistance, Therapy

Abstract

This article makes use of the works of Giorgio Agamben and psychoanalytic developmental perspectives to reframe resistance, bridging the consulting room with the political realities associated with climate change. Therapy, for patients suffering eco-distress, can be understood as a process that elicits unthought knowns linked to experience(s) of singularity, excess, and rapport, which, in turn, facilitates the capacity for public-political impotentiality or inoperative resistance whereby patients render inoperative those apparatuses that aim to determine subjectivity.

Author Biography

Ryan Williams LaMothe, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology

Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling

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Published

2022-12-14

How to Cite

LaMothe, R. W. (2022). Giorgio Agamben and Resistance: Bridging the Consulting Room and the Political in the Anthropocene Age. Free Associations, 35(87). Retrieved from https://freeassociations.org.uk/FA_New/OJS/index.php/fa/article/view/426

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 87 (2022)

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Articles

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