Discourse Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Logics of Critical Explanation
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Abstract
In September 2019, Jason Glynos, Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Government,
University of Essex, UK, visited Recife, Brazil, while staying in the country for two months, for a
series of academic activities held at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), co-convened by
Profs. Gustavo Oliveira and Anna Luiza Oliveira (UFPE) and Joanildo Burity (Fundaj and UFPE).
Two interviews were then granted by Prof. Glynos, one of them focusing on the Critical Fantasy
Studies research programme he is developing and here the reader will find the second one, focused
on Glynos’s own intellectual trajectory, his engagement with discourse theory and psychoanalysis
(expressed in his dialogue with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek) and a discussion of methodological
aspects of the logics framework developed by him and David Howarth (also from the University of
Essex). Particular attention will be given to the relation between the logics of equivalence and
difference, on the one hand, and the three meso-level logics put forward by Glynos and Howarth, as
the social, political and fantasmatic logics. Glynos is also asked to ponder on how the latter relate to
one another, especially in contexts of empirical work, around the question of problematization. The
interview was conducted by Joanildo Burity and Gustavo Oliveira, at the Joaquim Nabuco
Foundation.
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Glynos, J., Burity, J., & Gilson Oliveira, G. (2021). Discourse Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Logics of Critical Explanation. Revista Sul-Americana De Ciência Política, 6(1), 01-23. Retrieved from https://revistas.ufpel.edu.br/index.php/Sul/article/view/124
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STAVRAKAKIS, Yannis. Lacan and the Political. London: Routledge, 1999.
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DAHLBERG, Lincoln; PHELAN, Sean (Eds.). Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics.
London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011
GLYNOS, Jason. Ernesto the Tension Dweller: On Paradox, Political Discourse, and Affect.
Revista Pleyade, n. 16, p. 49-55, dic. 2015.
_______. Death, Fantasy, and the Ethics of Mourning. In: CARPENTIER, Nico; VAN BRUSSEL,
Leen (Eds). The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London: Palgrave,
2014.
_______. Hating Government and Voting Against One’s Interests: Self-Transgression, Enjoyment,
Critique. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, v. 19, n. 2, p. 179-189, 2014.
Revista Sul-Americana de Ciência Política, v. 6, n. 1, 1-23.
21
_______. Neoliberalism, Markets, Fantasy: The Case of Health and Social Care. Psychoanalysis,
Culture & Society, v. 19, n. 1, p. 5-12, 2014.
_______. Capitalism and the Act: From Content to Form and Back Again. In: PAVÓN-CUÉLLAR,
David; PARKER, Ian (Eds). Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual
Indeterminacy. London: Routledge, 2013.
_______. Body, Discourse, and the Turn to Matter. In: BAHUN, Sanja; RADUNOVIĆ, Dusan.
Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions. London: Ashgate, 2012.
_______. The Place of Fantasy in a Critical Political Economy: The Case of Market Boundaries.
Cardozo Law Review, v. 33, n. 6, p. 101-139, 2012.
_______. Fantasy and Identity in Critical Political Theory. Filozofski Vestnik, v. 32, n. 2, p. 65-88,
2011.
_______. On the Ideological and Political Significance of Fantasy in the Organization of Work.
Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, v. 16, n. 4, p. 373-393, 2011.
_______. Ideological Fantasy at Work. Journal of Political Ideologies, v. 13, n. 3, p. 275-296,
2008.
_______. Self-transgressive Enjoyment as a Freedom Fetter. Political Studies, v. 56, n. 3, p. 679-
704, 2008.
_______. Radical Democratic Ethos, or, What is an Authentic Political Act? Contemporary
Political Theory, v. 2, n. 2, p. 187-208, 2003.
_______. Self-Transgression and Freedom. Critical Review of International Social and Political
Philosophy, v. 6, n. 2, p. 1-20, 2003.
_______. The Grip of Ideology: A Lacanian Approach to the Theory of Ideology. Journal of
Political Ideologies, v. 6, n. 2, p. 191-214, 2001.
_______. There is no Other of the Other: Symptoms of a Decline in Symbolic Faith. Paragraph, v.
24, n. 2, p. 78-110, 2001.
_______. Sex and the Limits of Discourse. In: HOWARTH, David; NORVAL, Aletta;
STAVRAKAKIS, Yannis (Eds.). Discourse Theory and Political Analysis. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2000.
_______. Sexual Identity, Identification, and Difference: A Psychoanalytic Contribution to
Discourse Theory. Philosophy & Social Criticism, v. 26, n. 6, p. 85-108, 2000.
GLYNOS, Jason; GRIGGS, Steven; HOWARTH, David. Discourse, explanation and critique.
Critical Policy Studies, v. 10, n. 1, p. 99-104, 2016.
GLYNOS, Jason; BURITY, Joanildo; OLIVEIRA, Gustavo. Critical Fantasy Studies:
Neoliberalism, Education, Identification. Série-Estudos, v. 24, n. 52, p. 145-170, 2019.
GLYNOS, Jason; HOWARTH, David. The Retroductive Cycle: The research process in
poststructuralist discourse analysis. In: MARTTILA, Tomas (Ed.). Discourse, Culture and
Organization: Inquiries into Relational Structures of Power. London: Palgrave, 2019.
Revista Sul-Americana de Ciência Política, v. 6, n. 1, 1-23.
22
_______. Structure, Agency and Power in Political Analysis: Beyond Contextualized Self-
Interpretations. Political Studies Review, v. 6, n. 2, p. 155-169, 2008.
_______. Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory. Abingdon: Routledge,
2007.
GLYNOS, Jason; KLIMECKI, Robin; WILLMOTT, Hugh. Logics in Policy and Practice: A
Critical Nodal Analysis of the UK Banking Reform Process. Critical Policy Studies, v. 9, n. 4, p.
393-415, 2015.
_______. Cooling Out the Marks: The Ideology and Politics of the Financial Crisis. Journal of
Cultural Economy, v. 5, n. 3, p. 297-320, 2012.
GLYNOS, Jason; MONDON, Aurelien. The Political Logic of Populist Hype: The case of right
wing’s populism’s ‘meteoric rise’ and its relation to the status quo. In: COSSARINI, Paolo;
VALLESPIN, Fernando (Eds). Populism and Passions: Democratic Legitimacy after Austerity.
London: Routledge, 2019.
GLYNOS, Jason; SPEED, Ewen; WEST, Karen. Logics of Marginalisation in Health and Social
Care Reform: Integration, Choice and Provider-blind Provision. Critical Social Policy, v. 35, n. 1,
p. 45-68, 2015.
GLYNOS, Jason; STAVRAKAKIS, Yannis. Politics and the Unconscious: An Interview with
Ernesto Laclau. Subjectivity, v. 3, n. 3, p. 231-244, 2010.
_______. Lacan and Political Subjectivity. Subjectivity, v. 24, n. 1, p. 256-274, 2008.
_______. Encounters of the Real Kind. Journal of Lacanian Studies, v. 1, n. 1, p. 110-128, 2003
followed by a ‘Reply’ in subsequent issue written by Ernesto Laclau; reprinted In: CRITCHLEY,
Simon; MARCHART, Oliver (Eds.). Laclau: A Critical Reader. London: Routledge, 2004.
GLYNOS, Jason; VOUTYRAS, Savvas. Ideology as Blocked Mourning: Greek National Identity in
Times of Economic Crisis and Austerity. Journal of Political Ideologies, v. 21, n. 3, p. 201-224,
2016.
HOWARTH, David. Poststructuralism and After. London: Palgrave, 2013.
LACLAU, Ernesto. New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time. London: Verso, 1990.
LACLAU, Ernesto; MOUFFE, Chantal. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. London: Verso, 1985.
STAVRAKAKIS, Yannis. Lacan and the Political. London: Routledge, 1999.
ŽIŽEK, Slavoj. The Sublime Object of Ideology. London: Verso, 1989.