The Catalan Crisis

Preface
1 Introduction
2 The Essentialist Pitfalls of the Literature
Identity and the Dret a decidir
Material Causality
Geopolitical and Economic Consequences
The Right of the Catalans to Self-Determination
Discourses, their Methods of Reproduction and Hegemony-Building
Conclusion
3 A Psychoanalytical and Post-Marxist Approach to Social Institution and Change
Reality
Discourse
The Status of Knowledge (and Truth)
Fantasy, Points de capiton, Empty Signifiers and Hegemony
Negativity and Dislocation
The Symptom
Conclusion
4 On Monadic Unity: The Point de capiton of the Status Quo (and the Seeds of Its Dissolution)
Introduction
Monadic Unity as a Pure Signifier: Unidad before Signification
Unity within the Political: The State
Conclusion
5 The Rule of Law and the Symptoms of Consensual Democracy
Introduction
A Consensual Democracy without Consensus: Exclusion, Invisibilisation, Criminalisation and Blame of the Symptom
Exclusion and Invisibilisation
Criminalisation and Blame
Conclusion
6 Sourcing Absence and Alienation to Name Collective Emancipation
Introduction
The Sourcing of Absence as a Necessary Condition for an Alternative Political Identity
Setting a Milestone for Absence
The Absence of Proper Democratic Practices: The 78 Regime
The Absence of Fair Economic and Social Policies
The Absence of Alternative Forms of Cultural Identity
Conclusion
7 The Sublimation of Choice into an Emancipatory Horizon: A Procés to Exert the Dret a decidir
Introduction
‘Choice’ to Bind them All: Naming Das Ding or when Decision ‘Takes up the Task’
The Dret a decidir as Subject of Emancipation
A New Non-Monadic Point de capiton and the Blurring of Traditional Political Frontiers
The Dret a decidir as Democracy
Universality through Metaphorical Emptiness
Inalienability and Convention of a Right to Decide
The Inscription of Social Demands
Reluctance from the Left
Convergències, Unions and Liberal/Traditional Catalanism
A Republican Cultural Identity
Conclusion
8 Conclusions
Bibliography