Borrando la ficción de la identidad: La intersubjetividad como base para una nueva historiografía Erasing the Fiction of Identity: Intersubjectivity as a base for a new historiography Open Access

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Borrando la ficción de la identidad: La intersubjetividad como base para una nueva historiografía
Erasing the Fiction of Identity: Intersubjectivity as a Foundation for a New Historiography makes a case for the need and the possibility of a renovation of historiography. Based on an analysis of the most relevant historiographic approaches in Latin America since the 1940s, this study shows the theoretical limitations of the connection between teleologically oriented political projects and essentialist conceptions of identity and nation. To overcome these limitations, this work proposes to look into the role of subjectivity in the constitution of the nations and national identity. In particular, this perspective emphasizes the intersubjective connection between nineteenth century Latin American and Spanish authors, and underlines the role of intersubjectivity in the constitution of their national identities. This dissertation advances a new approach to historiography based on three distinctive perspectives: a reading of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities from an intersubjective standpoint, an approximation to Jacques Lacan's insights on intersubjectivity, and a deconstructive approach formulated by Ernesto Laclau, which recognizes lack and exclusion as constitutive of individuals and societies, and considers democracies as spaces on dispute for hegemony. Taken together, Anderson's intuition of intersubjectivity, Laclau's formulation of the social as contingent, and Lacan's notion of identity as lacking build a bridge between studies of the mind and society, and open a possibility for renovation of historiography.

B.A., Universidad Católica de Guayaquil, 1986
M.A., University of Northern Iowa, 1998
M.A., Indiana State University, 2000
Advisor: Hernan Feldman, Ph.D.
A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the
James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies of Emory University
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
in Spanish
2012

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INTRODUCCIÓN: La ficción de la identidad y la historiografía cultural

latinoamericana _____________________________________________1

CAPITULO I: De los esencialismos a los simbolismos ________________ 30

CAPITULO II: El encanto de lo reprimido en Imagined Communities____ 64

CAPITULO III: El desencuentro entre antropología y psicoanálisis y sus

consecuencias en Imagined Communities_________________________ 96

CAPITULO IV: Tensiones al interior de Imagined Communities ________ 132

CAPITULO V: La intersubjetividad a ambos lados del Atlántico ________ 148

CAPITULO VI: De las identidades simbólicas a las identificaciones

intersubjetivas _______________________________________________ 202

CAPITULO VII: Hacia una nueva historiografía ______________________228

CAPITULO VIII: Discusiones ontológicas ___________________________277

CONCLUSION:_________________________________________________308

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School	Laney Graduate School
Department	Spanish
Degree	PhD
Submission	Dissertation
Language	English
Research Field	History, General History, Latin American Literature, Latin American
Keyword	Intersubjectivy and Benedict Anderson Benedict Anderson Latino America y Espana Jacques Lacan Latin America and Spain critica historiográfica española o peninsular intersubjectivity and the renovation of historiography Ernesto Laclau latin american historiograpy transatlantic approach Juan Valera Shoshana Feldman intersubjetividad y critica historiografica latinoamericana critica historiografica latinoamericana Intersubjectivity and Jacques Lacan enfoque trasatlantico Juan Leon Mera
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Feldman, Hernan, Emory University
Committee Members	Lesser, Jeffrey, Emory University Stolley, Karen, Emory University Reber, Dierdra, Emory University

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