‘Capitalism is terrorism against all of humanity’ says Pope Francis. How are we to understand this unprecedented and scathing critique of capitalism from the head of the Catholic Church? His holiness names the excesses of the global capitalism as ‘the dung of the devil’. Maybe someone might describe Pope Francis as an anti-Oedipus. He does not seem to fit...
Re-inventing Hermeneutics of Suspicion from contemporary Indian Realities
This paper has an expressed desire to re-invent hermeneutics of suspicion from contemporary Indian realities. In order that our exercise is fruitful, we are challenged to trace the trajectory of desire in our society. Desire was studied by psychoanalysis for some time. Lately, another mode called schizoanalysis has emerged as a profound way of understanding the trajectory of desire....
The Other in the Self and the Other of the Self
After the unconscious, Sigmund Freud has to be credited with the important discovery of repression in our life. Repression is one of the most important defence mechanisms that we employ to cope with unpalatable side of life. Freud himself brought to light the link between repression and the unconscious. The repressed material does not stand static in the unconscious...
