The Evisceration of 'Truth': A Cinematic-Psychoanalytic Entanglement with the Notion of Truth in Education

Autor/inn/en	Kabgani, Sajad; Sahragard, Rahman
Titel	The Evisceration of 'Truth': A Cinematic-Psychoanalytic Entanglement with the Notion of Truth in Education
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 42 (2021) 2, S.295-307 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kabgani, Sajad)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2019.1621802
Schlagwörter	Neoliberalism; Ethics; Films; Psychiatry; Social Systems; Criticism; Educational Philosophy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Ethik; Film; Psychiatrie; Social system; Soziales System; Kritik; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie
Abstract	In the neoliberal discourse of education, the notion of "truth," as a fantasmatic concept, has a pivotal status. In order to actualise its non-existent yet highly captivating utopia of perfection, progress and prosperity, this discourse needs to present a homogeneous picture of human ontology whose needs and desires can be satisfied as far as s/he believes in the envisaged utopia. Analysing the Polish drama film, "Ida" (2013), from a psychoanalytic-Lacanian perspective, this paper aims to show how a cinematic entanglement with the notion of truth can eviscerate it from its utopian conception. In the film under analysis, the protagonist's mere act of searching for the truth, rather than necessarily finding it, can turn out to be a more constitutive attempt. Accordingly, the paper argues that a subjective entanglement with the notion of truth is constitutive when the subject identifies with her/his ontological lack, in the Lacanian sense of the term. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01