De forførte som oprørere

– Hvordan man motiverer oprøret

Abstract

“Someone ought to do something about this!” Then why doesn’t anyone? A politically motivated psychology should be able to explain how people begin to revolt against systems they find unsatisfying, but also why they sometimes do not. The concept of desire will func- tion as the prism for understanding this prob- lem by asking the question: How do we make people desire the revolt? This is investigated through the example of psychology students at the University of Copenhagen, where the author graduated, in order to support the theoretical and conceptual development.

The paper begins by synthesizing a con- ceptual structure of what it means to desire an object like the revolt. The paper then looks into the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler and social theory of Hartmut Rosa as it seeks out to establish how such structures of desire are negated or re-routed, thus making the desire of the revolt impossible. However, it is theorised that it is possible to combat the system that negates the structures of desire by way of ideology critique as mutual interpellation (Nissen, 2012). The paper attempts to develop these theories furthers by appropriating concepts of performance (Butler, 1988), but translating the performative into a practice of seduction (Laplanche, 2011)). In summary, the paper argues that a rearticulation as a mutually interpellative practice of seduction can make possible the desire of the revolt and it is further argued that such a desire is necessary for any revolt to take place at all. A possible rearticulation with regards to the case of the psychology students is finally offered. Lastly; a short reflection on what happens on “the day after the revolt”.