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Story collected by Sadie Costello, a student at Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus) school (Rathkeeragan... more Story collected by Sadie Costello, a student at Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus) school (Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly) (no informant identified).

By comparing Sigmund Freud's "Rat Man" case study with Stanley Milgram&... more By comparing Sigmund Freud's "Rat Man" case study with Stanley Milgram's studies of "Obedience to Authority", this chapter draws on Kenneth Burke's argument about the virtues of a good "representative anecdote" that condenses yet preserves complexity, to explore the characteristics of Freud’s case study and Milgram’s social psychology experiments. The Rat Man case study may be regarded as an exemplary "representative anecdote" that reveals the strengths of the case study as a genre and source of knowledge ideally suited to the construction of a public. This is achieved through the presentation of detailed and fascinating case material that also and simultaneously condenses inside its logic and grammar a distilled account of a larger paradigm or theory; in this case psychoanalytic theory. By way of contrast with Freud’s case study, Milgram’s studies on obedience to authority, as originally conceived and as usually reported, are poor representative anecdotes. Their disabling shock effect and their implicit counsel of despair emerge from their undue simplification and their primary focus on “final scores”. However, in the book Obedience to Authority, and to a lesser extent in earlier publications, there are a set of case study-like vignettes concerning several of the research subjects and how they experienced and performed in the experimental setting. When re-examined in a manner that pays due attention to the tensions, emotions and conflicting identifications that are evident in the responses of these subjects to the experimental conditions, a more complex counter anecdote may be discerned. In this way the chapter rereads Milgram's research through its own case histories.

Postcolonial Studies

ABSTRACT Since the signing of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement of 1998, Northern Ireland has mad... more ABSTRACT Since the signing of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement of 1998, Northern Ireland has made significant progress towards a postcolonising transformation of its political culture and its major political and social institutions, as it has shifted away from violence and the dominance of political ideologies structured by the friend–enemy distinction. These ideological formations and the practices of social and political antagonism that they prescribed have been challenged by adversary–neighbour ideological formations that construct identities and relations through more inclusive norms of recognition and that support a more complex emotional constellation. However, as this cultural transformation has been neither thoroughgoing nor universal, Northern Ireland finds itself in the somewhat counter-intuitive situation in which the shift away from the violence of the past has increased, rather than reduced, the ontological insecurity of its citizens. Moreover, as ontological security may be supported by either friend–enemy or adversary–neighbour ideological formations, two distinct ways in which ontological security may collapse or re-configure have emerged in Northern Ireland.

Australian Feminist Law Journal

... The challenge to be raised will be to better Dr. John Cash is an honorary Fellow in the Schoo... more ... The challenge to be raised will be to better Dr. John Cash is an honorary Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social inquiry at the University of Melbourne. He is also an editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Studies. ...

Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory, 2012

The concept of ideology has a genealogy that traces through some central moments and dilemmas of ... more The concept of ideology has a genealogy that traces through some central moments and dilemmas of modernity and postmodernity and a presence that recurs in the explanation of how societies are reproduced and human subjectivities are organized. Born during the French Revolution, under the shadow of the guillotine, it survived in the person of its originator, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, to become a guiding concept for the realization of the ambitions of the Enlightenment in the period following the Thermidorian Reaction, with its defeat of Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety. In this revolutionary setting, ideology was conceived as knowledge based on the certainties of first principles and as an antidote to the prejudices and inexact pre-judgements of custom and tradition, especially as communicated through ordinary language. It was conceived, then, as the inverse of its now typical cluster of connotations and meanings in which misrecognition figures large. Yet this very splitting between valid and invalid forms of consciousness, knowledge or belief has continued to haunt notions of ideology throughout its subsequent career. This chapter discusses the career of the concept of ideology, focusing particularly on the arguments developed by Marx (and Engels), Erich Fromm, Theodor Adorno, Jurgen Habermas, Louis Althusser and Slavoj Zizek. Post-Marx, and following on from Erich Fromm's early work as part of the Frankfurt School, psychoanalytic theory figures large in these theorists work, There is passing reference to other figures, especially Vladimir Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau.

Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy & Social Theory, 2002

In this issue of Critical Horizons Gerry Gill reminds us of Augustine's description of the o... more In this issue of Critical Horizons Gerry Gill reminds us of Augustine's description of the origins of the Christian era as being between two worlds - 'one dead, the other powerless to be born'. Similarly, it could be argued that as contemporaries we are also between two ...

BMJ, 1996

EDITOR,—Others will no doubt seek to address some of the minor but important inaccuracies in Rich... more EDITOR,—Others will no doubt seek to address some of the minor but important inaccuracies in Richard Smith's stimulating editorial on the proposal that an academy of medicine should be set up.1 …

Story collected by John Cash, a student at Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus) school (Rathkeeragan, Co.... more Story collected by John Cash, a student at Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus) school (Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly) (no informant identified).