Nick Mansfield 2000Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway,NSW: Allen

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Nick Mansfield (2000)Subjectivity Theories of
the Self from Freud to Haraway,NSW Allen Unwin.
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SUBJECT
The focus on the self as the centre both of lived
experience and of discernable meaning has become
one of the -if not the- defining issue/s of
modern and postmodern cultures Nick Mansfield
(2000)Subjectivity Theories of the Self from
Freud to Haraway,NSW Allen Unwin,1.
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• Self as origin of all experiences and knowledge
• Preference for a conscious process of thought
  over every other impulse or sensation. 14
• the human defined by its separation from the
  world, that it has an interiority that is set off
  against the exteriority of the objective outside
  world 23
• Nick Mansfield (2000)Subjectivity Theories of
  the Self from Freud to Haraway,NSW Allen
  Unwin,14 and 23

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subject as a sense of the social and cultural
entanglement that is our immediate daily
lifealways already caught up in complex
political, social and philosophical that is,
shared concerns. (Mansfield 20003)
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subject is made within the world, not born into
it already formed. (Mansfield, 200011)
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Subjectivity constructed by the relationships
that form the human context. A key mechanism
through which this context is constructed is
language. (Mansfield 200052)
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DISCURSIVE SUBJECT POLITICAL/LEGAL
SUBJECT PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECT SUBJECT AS A HUMAN
PERSON (Mansfield 20004)
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• Types of subject
• ?Subject of language I the origin of actions
  feelings and experiences but catches us in a
  infinite, trans-historical network of meaning
  making., 3
• Political-legal subject a social contract which
  asks certain responsibilities of us and
  guarantees us certain freedoms in return4
• Philosophical subject located at the centre
  of truth, morality and meaning
• (Mansfield, 2000 3 4)

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Subject as human we remain an intense focus of
rich and immediate experience that defies system,
logic, and order and that goes out into the world
in a complex, inconsistent and highly charged
way. (Mansfield, 20004)
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Subjectivity, therefore, is the type of being we
become as we fit into the needs of the larger
political imperatives of the capitalist state. It
requires us not only to behave in certain ways,
but to be certain types of people. (Mansfield,
2000 53)
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The psychoanalytic subject/ or split subject
Freud (1856-1939) Conscious/unconscious Id/ego/sup
er ego Eros/thanatos Family
Lacan (1901-1981) Subject of language Imaginary/sy
mbolic/real
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Ideological subject Louis Althusser
(1918-1990) Why does capitalism work and does
it maintain power over the workers? Repressive
State Apparatuses Ideological State
Apparatuses Ideology constructs subjects by
interpellation.
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Subject and power
Foucault (1926-1984) Power/knowledge/discourse
Foucault subject as a mechanism that is created
to control our lives the way we are led to think
about ourselves, so we will police and present
ourselves in the correct way, as not insane,
criminal, undisciplined, unkempt, perverse, or
unpredictable. (Mansfield 20009-10)
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Discourse
Who says what Through what channel In which
mode To whom About what With what effect
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Gendered and sexed subject
Sexuality and dichotomies Gender and
performance Gender and politics Queer subject
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Post-colonial subject
in a very general sense, it is the study of the
interactions between European nations and the
societies they colonized in the modern period.
Otherness Colonialism Subaltern Third
cinema Orientalism
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Postmodern Subject The old theoretical
frameworks (or cognitive maps) are no longer
relevant to contemporary times with its dominance
of late capitalism/globalism 163 We move through
a number of unrelated contexts each implying
different relationships and causing the subject
to be uncertain and lost 164 (Mansfield 2000
163164)
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Subjects finding it difficult to orientate
themselves on any acceptable map so that they
remain confused, alienated or uncertain or else
play and experimentation, appropriation Panic
the dominant feeling of the postmodern 168
but just as easily a feeling of narcissism or
consuming as a means of establishing identity.
the subject as a marketing opportunity (Mansfield
2000168)