ABSTRACT
In this brief commentary on Butler’s description of ruptures and violences of setting, so dense with possibilities for debate and elaboration, four central themes are explored: a rumination on the word “visceral,” suggesting that nonbelonging is never a ghostly experience; “plucking up a protest,” and the paradox of needing for a place of belonging before protest is possible; the bewildering multiplicity of ghosts in protest movements; and how we think of belonging in a clinical setting.
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Sally Swartz
Emeritus associate professor Sally Swartz participates in the University of Cape Town’s training faculty in the clinical psychology program, and is a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Cape Town, South Africa. She has a particular interest in the fields of colonial psychiatric history, decolonization, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in South Africa. Her Homeless Wanderers: Movement and Mental Illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century was published by UCT Press in 2015, and Ruthless Winnicott: The Role of Ruthlessness in Psychoanalysis and Political Protest by Routledge in 2019.