Description
This paper, part of a broader joint project, provides a comparative analysis of two increasingly prominent streams within ontological security studies – works drawing from the psychoanalytic and existentialist traditions. We provide summaries of each tradition, tracing their import to OSS through the works of key thinkers and texts. We appraise the benefits and features of each, where they have or might overlap, and where contrasts emerge including shaping some debates within OSS. To the latter, we delineate the ‘stakes’ of differences between each and how those unfold into different theorizations of, and politics for, the ontologically (in)secure subjects of global politics.
