Category Archives: Psychosocial studies

Jessica Benjamin’s theory of mutual recognition and thirdness has been central to the development of relational psychoanalysis and feminist-informed clinical theory. Across works such as The Bonds of Love (1988), Like Subjects, Love Objects (1995), and Shadow of the Other (1998), Benjamin repositions subjectivity as a fundamental relational phenomenon, arising not in isolation but throughContinueContinue reading “Recognition and Its Discontents: Rethinking Mutuality in Jessica Benjamin’s Intersubjective Ethics”

By 2023, the UK Home Office reported over 175,000 pending asylum applications. This backlog reflects a complex process. It can delay integration through various mechanisms (Home Office, 2023). Housing and accommodation are central to this broader labyrinth. They serve as a key expression of “biopolitics”—the governance of populations as living bodies (Foucault, 1978). The BibbyContinueContinue reading “Outlanders in Limbo: The Maze of Asylum in the UK and the Politics of Exclusion”