Contention 1: Ontology – First and foremost, we’ll recognize that our discourse shapes reality. However, as powerful as language is, there is always-already a gap between the way the world is and the way we describe it. We’ll refer to this gap, or lack, as “the real.” Just like the feeling you get when you’re the only kid on your block without a PSP, we, as a society, are left feeling traumatized by this fundamental lack inherent in each and every one of us. In order to deal with our un-comfort surrounding the lack, and to help us sleep at night, we create “fantasies” that make us feel better about the world we live in. One such fantasy is that of the modern state, a perpetual war-machine that eliminates all that doesn’t fit within our conception of the world in order to ensure our security.
Edkins 2003 (Jenny; Senior Lecturer in International Politics – University of Wales-Aberystwyth) Trauma and the Memory of Politics p. 11-14
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