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Психоаналитичен опит върху правната форма в „Градът и градът“
A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Legal Form in “The City & The City”

Author(s): Stefan Goncharov
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Psychology, Epistemology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis, Theory of Literature, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Институт за литература - БАН
Keywords: China Miéville; psychoanalysis; legal form; ideology

Summary/Abstract: The text offers a psychoanalytic reading of “The City & The City” by China Miéville, whose Marxist theory of international law is reflected, refracted, and further complicated within the framework of the novel. The literary work is examined as a narrative that questions the conflict between the real and the ideological dimensions of a law. The latter, on the one hand, reifies and fetishizes space. On the other, it compels the interpellated subjects to deny and “un-sense” the world around them. The analysis foregrounds the contradictions between the repressive and emancipatory dimensions of the legal system.

  • Issue Year: 68/2025
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 92-104
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bulgarian
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