Law as Psychic Ontology: Prohibition, Fantasy, and the Affective Life of Authority
This paper argues that law operates not only as an institutional or political order, but also as a psychic formation embedded within affect, desire, and recognition. The endurance of legal authority cannot be explained solely through coercion, consent, or procedural legitimacy. It also depends on how legality becomes internalized within psychic life and woven into attachments to order, belongin... more
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