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Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? If so, what is a populus? Is it by definition a nation? What exactly do we mean by nationality? In this book, Davide Tarizzo takes up the problem of modern democratic, liberal peoples-how to define them, how to explain their invariance over time, and how to differentiate one people from another. Specifically, Tarizzo proposes that Jacques Lacan's theory of the subject enables us to clearly distinguish between the notion of personal identity and the notion of subjectivity, and that this very distinction is critical to understanding the nature of nations whose sense of nationhood does not rest on any self-evident identity or pre-existent cultural or ethnic homogeneity between individuals. Developing an argument about the birth and rise of modern peoples that draws on the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789 as examples, Tarizzo introduces the concept of "political grammar"-a phrase that denotes the conditions of political subjectification that enable the enunciation of an emergent "we." Democracy, Tarizzo argues, flourishes when the opening between subjectivity and identity is maintained. And in fact, as he compellingly demonstrates, depending on the political grammar at work, democracy can be productively perceived as a process of never-ending recovery from a lack of clear national identity.

Political science --- Fascism --- Democracy --- Subjectivity. --- Philosophy. --- European Union. --- Lacanian psychoanalysis. --- democracy. --- fascism. --- first-person perspective. --- nationalism. --- neoliberalism. --- separatism. --- subjectivity. --- Subjectivism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Relativity --- Neo-fascism --- Authoritarianism --- Collectivism --- Corporate state --- National socialism --- Synarchism --- Totalitarianism --- Political philosophy

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This is the kind of writing — I hope — members of allied health and medical disciplines have been waiting for. Complicities offers a gentle, generous, highly knowledgeable, and accessible introduction to and application of transdisciplinarity at its best. Using argumentsand ideas from the critical humanities and cutting-edge approaches to neurobiology and psychotherapy, Natasha Distiller invites the reader into a world in which diversity and complexity are openly at play and the taken-for-granted is given a chance to dissolve. —David Azul, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia Beginning from the premise that we cannot separate ourselves from the systems that precede and formulate us as subjects, the author argues that, in reckoning with this complicity, a model of subjectivity can be created that moves beyond binaries and identity politics. In doing so, the book examines how we might develop a more socially just psychological theory and practice, which is both systems work and intra-psychological work. In bringing together ways of thinking developed in the humanities with clinical psychotherapeutic practice, this book offers one interdisciplinary take on key questions of social and emotional efficacy in action-oriented psychotherapy work.

Psychology --- Clinical psychology --- History of Western philosophy --- Gender studies, gender groups --- Crime & criminology --- Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) --- psychological humanities --- subjectivity --- Feminist therapy --- Postcolonial theory --- queer theory --- identity politics --- structural inequality --- critical race theory --- social justice --- relational-cultural therapy --- intersubjectivity --- attachment theory --- Lacanian psychoanalysis --- therapeutic transgender activism --- whiteness --- Open Access --- Psychology. --- Clinical psychology. --- Critical theory. --- Sex. --- Race. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Theoretical Psychology. --- Clinical Psychology. --- Critical Theory. --- Gender Studies. --- Race and Ethnicity Studies. --- Psychology, Pathological --- Physical anthropology --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Critical social theory --- Critical theory (Philosophy) --- Critical theory (Sociology) --- Negative philosophy --- Criticism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Sociology --- Frankfurt school of sociology --- Socialism --- Psychiatry --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health --- Psychology and the humanities. --- Subjectivity. --- Social aspects. --- Psicologia --- Subjectivitat --- Psicologia.