Decentering the Subject, Psychoanalytically: Researching Imaginary Spacings through Image-Based Interviews

Since the more-than-human turn, geographers have increasingly called for a decentering of human subject by breaking away from classically modern understanding subjectivity and treating humans as one many players. In this article, we offer an alternative way following psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Far being subject-centered, psychoanalysis aims to understand radically decentered fragile production, which is only secured through what Lacan calls imaginary. The imaginary combines two realms—image imagination—and focuses on how generates sense self spatial identification with images. Based image-based interviews conducted in Singapore, Vancouver, Berlin method photo-elicitation, demonstrate can be empirically investigated. We identify five stages that help us retrace establishes relationship image well it confronted constitution relationship. conclude emphasizing potential investigate subjects explore ways further decenter psychoanalytically.