MENYUDAHI ANALOGI ANTROPOMORFISME: MENDAMAIKAN BIOLOGI, SOSIOLOGI, DAN PSIKOLOGI MELALUI PSIKOGENEALOGI ANTROPOLOGI KEDAULATAN NEGARA
ABSTRACT: It is quite often,
wittingly or unwittingly, that people assume society, even the state, as
person. They talk about society in a way as if it shares same attributes with
human being: can be sick (as if it has body), can think (as if it has mind),
can speak (as if it has mouth), for example. It is quite obvious that this
gesture implies a view of society as an agglomeration of individuals. The
problem arises around the legitimacy of this gesture: namely, to analogize the
society as individuals always implies a logical leap. Things even get murkier
when this gesture is applied even more to the way in which people recognize the
state: as collectivities, as a “big-person.” This gesture, which has
methodological impact, is what the author call ‘anthropomorphism analogy’. By
doing what the author call psychogenealogy—a mixture of Lacanian psychoanalysis
and Foucauldian genealogy, that is a way at seeing history as constituted by
various contestation of materialization of desire—to the history of the modern
state, namely, modern sovereign state, the author seeks to remedy this analogy
with an objective account. The purpose is not to side with the analogy, but to
prove that it is invalid not because it is scientifically inadequate, but that
it is a true correspondence: state is person.
Keywords: Anthropomorphism
analogy, state, sovereignty, psychogenealogy, desire, anxiety
Penulis: Hizkia Yosie
Polimpung
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd110007
