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Notes
1. “In Lacanian theory, social reality is composed of sets of shared ideological identifications/beliefs, i.e. master signifiers that are anchored, or sutured, in and between us and others to form our social groups. To belong and be whole, to be a full person, requires us to believe, to some degree, in the dominant contested discourses and practices prescribed with our master signifiers; the dominant rules of conduct and law” (Gunder & Hillier, Citation2004, p. 228).
2. Master signifiers are “any signifier that a subject has invested his or her identity in—any signifier that the subject has identified with (or against) and that thus constitutes a powerful positive or negative value” (Bracher, Citation1993, p. 111).
3. The Other is the symbolic substance of our being, the virtual other that regulates intersubjective space (Zizek, Citation2001, p. 254). It should be noted that according to Lacan “there is no ‘big Other’ watching over us, except the one we construct in our imaginations” (Gunder & Hillier, Citation2007, p. 88).
4. The planning profession “comprises a community of like-minded practitioners sharing a common field of endeavour with what Bourdieu calls a habitus” (Gunder, Citation2003, p. 286).