TY - JOUR
T1 - The morbid dance of ideology on the scaffold
T2 - On subjectivity and capital punishment in Iran
AU - Kabgani, Sajad
AU - Zargarian, Amin
AU - Clarke, Matthew
PY - 2018/3/28
Y1 - 2018/3/28
N2 - In this paper we examine the discursive structures adopted by the Iranian state in the context of public execution. Specifically, we argue that the state’s insistence upon executing an offender in public is nourished by an intangible yet efficacious violence that has politically and psychically determinative consequences. As such, what is foregrounded in this paper are not the legal aspects of executing the offender and the act itself, but the visibility of this act and its after-effects in terms of the formation of particular subjectivity. The paper’s analysis draws on examinations of the psycho-discursive structure of the punitive state from the points of view of thinkers such as Foucault, Butler and Lacan.
AB - In this paper we examine the discursive structures adopted by the Iranian state in the context of public execution. Specifically, we argue that the state’s insistence upon executing an offender in public is nourished by an intangible yet efficacious violence that has politically and psychically determinative consequences. As such, what is foregrounded in this paper are not the legal aspects of executing the offender and the act itself, but the visibility of this act and its after-effects in terms of the formation of particular subjectivity. The paper’s analysis draws on examinations of the psycho-discursive structure of the punitive state from the points of view of thinkers such as Foucault, Butler and Lacan.
U2 - 10.1057/s41282-018-0083-2
DO - 10.1057/s41282-018-0083-2
M3 - Article
SN - 1088-0763
VL - 23
SP - 401
EP - 418
JO - Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
JF - Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
IS - 4
ER -
