
What happens to The Concept of the Political and the friend-foe distinction when the praxis of a transformative philosopher like Gandhi is introduced from the non-west?
What becomes of the logic of The Beast and the Sovereign when the
psychobiograph of Gandhian non-violence is added as footnote? Gandhi, despite failures, perhaps brought Marx and
Freud—political and libidinal economies—into a Möbius-like dialogue. In doing so, did he unsettle both the a-psychoanalytic
nature of the political and the a-political nature of psychoanalysis? His political vision was not rooted in power, but in the sustained psychoanalytic work of the noncoercive reconciliation of modern morals and paleolithic affect.
This reconciliation is the ground of the spiritual praxis of the satyagrahi— through ongoing experiments with truth, swaraj and swadeshi.




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