Uncertain social subjects require a reflective imagination to meet novelty

Evidence

Castoriadis, as a practicing psychoanalyst, is interested in the process of self-understanding of the uncertain social subject—and this interest greatly influences the ways he seeks to overcome the limitations of traditional political economies. In his own words, a “reflective and deliberative subjectivity … is critically and lucidly open to the new; it does not repress the works of the imagination (one’s own or that of others) but is capable of receiving them critically, of accepting them or rejecting them” (Castoriadis 1997b, 112). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 434

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Social values exceed conscious comprehension and require imagination to navigate — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 343; Originality only requires being surprising within one’s own community — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 259