Political Psycho-analysis and the Political Subjectivity: Deleuzian Morphology of Revolutionary Political Subject and the Discourse of the Political Islam in 1979 Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Mahsima Sohrabi
Mohammadreza Tajik
Mansoor Mirahmadi Chenarooieh
Department of Political Science, Faculty of Economic and Political Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
10.22084/rjir.2021.23380.3252
Abstract
The Goal: The current survey aims to shed light on the formation of the political revolutionary subjects in Iran which led to the conquest of the discourse of the political Islam in 1979 through Deleuzian tenet of the “body without organs”. Accordingly, the current analysis has devoted its goal to quest for the reason of the triumph of the discourse of the political Islam in the event of1979, in comparison with the other opponents like the discourse of Marxism or Nationalism, based on psychoanalytical approach.
The Methodology: this survey has adopted the methodology of Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse analysis.
Findings: The results of the existing investigation depict that substitution and defeat of the previous discourse owes to the high ability of the discourse of the political Islam in provision of wide rhizomatic connections which led to the formation of the “intensive Political Subjects”.
Conclusion: the triumph of the discourse of the political Islam in 1979 in Iran, in comparison with the other activated anti-discourses like Marxism and Nationalism, drives from its “Positive Plot” which was in accordance with the Iranians’ Social Imaginary which resulted in the formation of psychotic/revolutionary political subjects which in Deleuzian psycho-analysis are classified as intensive political subjects to overthrow the previous dominant discourse.
Keywords
political psycho-analysis
intensive political subject
Laclau and Mouffe
Gilles Deleuze
the discourse of the Political Islam
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