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The green growth narrative, bioeconomy and the foreclosure of nature
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This article proposes an explanation for the paradox arising from the blatant inconsistency of the green growth narrative and its unrestrained progress, under new terms and policy debates, including that of bioeconomy. Decoupling, the economic strategy supposed to make green growth possible, has already been analysed by other authors using the Lacanian notion of neurotic fantasy, meaning a mechanism for upholding an ideology while systematically concealing its inner contradictions. However, based on Lacan’s theory, it can be shown that the discursive construction of decoupling ultimately does not meet the criteria of fantasy. Instead, a more fundamental neurotic fantasy is identified as sustaining modern subjectivity in general and constituting the main obstacle to socio-ecological transformation, which is the fantasy of nature. Distinct from and additional to the neurotic socio-pathological reactions in the face of contradictions of capitalist growth and the increasingly doomed symbolic order of modernity, signs of a psychotic reaction, according to Lacanian theory characterised by foreclosure, are identified in the green growth narrative. It is argued that the imaginary reconstruction of nature that underpins this narrative entails the foreclosure of the signifier Nature in its law-giving and limiting symbolic function. The argumentation is further supported by showing that the bioeconomy and green growth narratives bear the characteristics of what Lacan calls the capitalist’s discourse and which entails foreclosure. The analysis outlined in this article aims to demonstrate the hitherto underutilised potential of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory in terms of identifying and overcoming barriers to transformation and opening up new modes of subjectivation beyond the nature–culture dichotomy.
The green growth narrative, bioeconomy and the foreclosure of nature
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8925-3324
This article proposes an explanation for the paradox arising from the blatant inconsistency of the green growth narrative and its unrestrained progress, under new terms and policy debates, including that of bioeconomy. Decoupling, the economic strategy supposed to make green growth possible, has already been analysed by other authors using the Lacanian notion of neurotic fantasy, meaning a mechanism for upholding an ideology while systematically concealing its inner contradictions. However, based on Lacan’s theory, it can be shown that the discursive construction of decoupling ultimately does not meet the criteria of fantasy. Instead, a more fundamental neurotic fantasy is identified as sustaining modern subjectivity in general and constituting the main obstacle to socio-ecological transformation, which is the fantasy of nature. Distinct from and additional to the neurotic socio-pathological reactions in the face of contradictions of capitalist growth and the increasingly doomed symbolic order of modernity, signs of a psychotic reaction, according to Lacanian theory characterised by foreclosure, are identified in the green growth narrative. It is argued that the imaginary reconstruction of nature that underpins this narrative entails the foreclosure of the signifier Nature in its law-giving and limiting symbolic function. The argumentation is further supported by showing that the bioeconomy and green growth narratives bear the characteristics of what Lacan calls the capitalist’s discourse and which entails foreclosure. The analysis outlined in this article aims to demonstrate the hitherto underutilised potential of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory in terms of identifying and overcoming barriers to transformation and opening up new modes of subjectivation beyond the nature–culture dichotomy.
The green growth narrative, bioeconomy and the foreclosure of nature
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8925-3324
This article proposes an explanation for the paradox arising from the blatant inconsistency of the green growth narrative and its unrestrained progress, under new terms and policy debates, including that of bioeconomy. Decoupling, the economic strategy supposed to make green growth possible, has already been analysed by other authors using the Lacanian notion of neurotic fantasy, meaning a mechanism for upholding an ideology while systematically concealing its inner contradictions. However, based on Lacan’s theory, it can be shown that the discursive construction of decoupling ultimately does not meet the criteria of fantasy. Instead, a more fundamental neurotic fantasy is identified as sustaining modern subjectivity in general and constituting the main obstacle to socio-ecological transformation, which is the fantasy of nature. Distinct from and additional to the neurotic socio-pathological reactions in the face of contradictions of capitalist growth and the increasingly doomed symbolic order of modernity, signs of a psychotic reaction, according to Lacanian theory characterised by foreclosure, are identified in the green growth narrative. It is argued that the imaginary reconstruction of nature that underpins this narrative entails the foreclosure of the signifier Nature in its law-giving and limiting symbolic function. The argumentation is further supported by showing that the bioeconomy and green growth narratives bear the characteristics of what Lacan calls the capitalist’s discourse and which entails foreclosure. The analysis outlined in this article aims to demonstrate the hitherto underutilised potential of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory in terms of identifying and overcoming barriers to transformation and opening up new modes of subjectivation beyond the nature–culture dichotomy.
The green growth narrative, bioeconomy and the foreclosure of nature
Sustain Sci
Schmidlehner, Michael Franz (Autor:in)
Sustainability Science ; 18 ; 723-736
01.03.2023
14 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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