Erwig-Ward Aff

1ac

Contention One: Nuclear Head Games

9/11 represents a traumatic rupture in narratives of US omniscience. Trauma has been predominantly disavowed in favor of the re-assertion of US primacy that collapses political time to repeat terrorist threat ad infinitum
Nichols 07 [Bill, Professor of Literature at San Francisco State University, “The Terrorist Event,” Comparative Literature and Culture 9.1; 2007. Scholar. uo-tjs]

What happened on September 11 began  [...] to fit their adaptation here).

Nuclear power and terrorism have become conceptually linked – this traumatic affect determines public reaction to nuclear power
Slovic ‘06 [Peter, Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon, “What’s Fear Got to Do with It? It’s Affect We Need to Worry About,” MISSOURI LAW REVIEW Vol 69, LN. uo-tjs]

Imagery associated with a given risk  [...] societal behavior over the next century.

Nuclear disaster heralds an array of threats outside the descriptive powers of language and prediction—We compulsively look to precursor events to avoid the deadlock. The unspeakable horror of radioactivity has reduced us to a state of living death.
Van Wyck 05 [Peter C., Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Concordia University, Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat, University of Minnesota Press. 2005. p.105-107. uo-tjs]

So to all of the other  [...] began, and when it ended.

Contention Two: Confronting Trauma

There are three different reactions to foundational despair hailed by the traumatic event of nuclear disaster: one either disavows the significance of the event, obsesses over the threats associated with it, or works through the trauma by developing a system of meaning around it
Van Wyck 05 [Peter C., Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Concordia University, Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat, University of Minnesota Press. 2005. p.116-119. uo-tjs]

The real's relationship to ecological threat  [...] , "Mother" earth.

Disavowal of the trauma of modernity ensures continued brutal warfare—realpolitik is outmoded as conflict is increasingly enacted irrationally outside of self interest—only the Aff gives proper explanation
McAfee 08 [Noelle, Associate Research Professor of Philosophy and Conflict Analysis at Emory University, Democracy and the Political Unconscious (New Directions in Critical Theory), 2008. Columbia University Press. p. 28-30. uo-tjs] 

Modernity's traumas are many, more  [...] . <28-30>

Hyperarousal is predicated on chronic presentation of threats – this ushers in authoritarianism and makes policy failure inevitable.
Bloom 09 [Sandra, M.D. and Practicing Psychiatrist, “An Elephant in the Room: The Impact of Traumatic Stress on Individuals and Groups,” in The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical And Interdisciplinary Dialogues, Eds. Kristen Golden & Bettina Bergo, State University of New York Press. p. 155-156. uo-tjs]

Group responses to stress are measures  [...] punished. <155-156>

Hyperarousal is exemplified by a dispute over whether Environmental Impact Statements should include a successful terrorist attack on nuclear power. This default to “worst case” scenario analysis forces the NRC and the Courts to consider every theoretical threat a real danger and prevents nuclear power licensing and relicensing.
Briggs 11 [Alexander T; J.D. Candidate 2012, Seton Hall University School of Law; “Managing the Line Between Nuclear Power and Nuclear Terror: Considering the Threat of Terrorism as an Environmental Impact,” Seton Hall Circuit Review; 8 Seton Hall Cir. Rev. 223; Lexis. uo-tjs]

The NRC first rejected the requirement  [...] the NRC and plant operators.

Thus, the plan: The United States Supreme Court should affirm the Third Circuit Court decision in New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

AND, Supreme Court ruling against the inclusion of terrorism is critical to confronting nuclear hyperarousal in the case of energy policy
Briggs concludes…

Until this problem is resolved,  [...] and its citizens to unnecessary threats.

Part Three – The Analyst’s Couch

You should take up the position of the analyst and put the debaters on the couch – this allows us to question dominant discourses that actively produce threat and produce policy failure.
Bracher 94 [Mark, Associate Professor of English and associate director of the Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis at Kent State University, “On the Psychological and Social Functions of Language: Lacan's Theory of the Four Discourses,” Lacanian Theory of Discourse Subject, Structure, and Society Edited by Mark Bracher et al, 123-128. uo-tjs]
The Discourse of the Analyst It  [...] currents of which we are ignorant.

Debate is an imaginary space that enables a homeopathic repetition of and confrontation with trauma in an analytical state. The 1AC is an act of letting go of our fear and openness to our nightmares – this is key to sublimate trauma – otherwise that trauma will re-emerge in violent and uncontrollable impulses of drive.
Van Wyck 05 [Peter C., Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Concordia University, Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat, University of Minnesota Press. 2005. p.133-135. uo-tjs]

If we are to say that  [...] clean and safe nuclear future).

Our discursive commitments are paramount – sublimation of trauma can only occur through the articulation of intersubjective spaces that refigure the public sphere as a collective and therapeutic space.
McAfee 08 [Noelle, Associate Research Professor of Philosophy and Conflict Analysis at Emory University, Democracy and the Political Unconscious (New Directions in Critical Theory), 2008. Columbia University Press. p. 22-24. uo-tjs]
One of my central premises is  [...] . <pg 22-24>

This has several implications for impact evaluation – 

First, you should frame this debate through the understanding that despair is foundational. The only relevant question is how you respond to trauma.
Pollock 09 [Griselda, Professor of the Social & Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds, “Art/Trauma/Representation”, Parallax Vol 15 No 1; pp. 40-54. uo-tjs]

To proceed into this terrain [...] sharing the events and encounters.12

Second, we should roleplay our descent into catastrophe – this act mediates and transforms our relationship with trauma.
Van Wyck 05 [Peter C., Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Concordia University, Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat, University of Minnesota Press. 2005. p. 137-138. uo-tjs]

The virtual is just the shifter  [...] and therefore perhaps even more faithful.

Third, embracing our vulnerability to imagined horror and violence creates narratives that reformulate community on the basis of ethical precariousness
Kohlke 11 [Marie-Luise, “Sublime Violations: Trauma Literature and the Search for Transcendence through Violence” Creating Destruction: Constructing Images of Violence and Genocide, p. 149-151. uo-tjs]

The traumatic sublime offers its readers  [...] us. <149-151>

Last, affirming negativity is key – no large-scale political change can happen without a confrontation with trauma
Sjöholm 05 [Cecilia, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Sodertorn University College, Sweden, Kristeva and the Political, 2005. uo-tjs] 

The sémanalyse is aiming to distil  [...] term negativity will be elucidated. 

2ac/1ar ev
First, only psychoanalysis addresses the gaze of the Other which makes it possible for the subject to engage the state as a single entity—psychoanalysis is key to interrupt the daily practice and exposure of the state as a myriad of representations
Dean ‘05 [Jodi, “Enjoyment as a Category of Political Thought.” Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, September 2005, jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/files/aspa_05_enjoyment.doc, uo-tjs] 

Zizek also differs from Foucault with  [...] of activities the subject can undertake.

Second, without analysis, policymaking is doomed to failure at the hands of it’s own fantasies.
Fotaki, ‘10 [Marianna, Organization Studies Group, Manchester Business School, “Why do public policies fail so often? Exploring health policy-making as an imaginary and symbolic construction,” Organization 17(6) pp. 703-720, Sage, p. 713-716. uo-tjs]

So far, I have  [...] and being in organizations and society.

Evaluate ontology first because your horizon of meaning renders all ensuing action possible

Zizek '92 [Slavoj, Doesn't like sharing Chinese food, Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, New York City: Routledge, 1992, 53-4. uo-tjs]

In other words, Hegelian " [...] the universe of symbolic necessity.

Debate should be undergone like a passion, not a predictable process where the right way to debate is decided in advance by an arbitrary framework—life becomes foreclosed debate should be open to different ways of relating to the resolution

Judith Butler, Professor of Gender, Rhetoric, Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. 2004. Undoing Gender. pp. 39. uo-tjs

When we ask what makes a  [...] certainty about what will come.

The norms you construct to protect good debate end up limiting participation to the point that debate becomes foreclosed; engendering meaningless exchanges amongst the like-minded—this does violence to dissident voices

Judith Butler, Professor of Gender, Rhetoric, Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. 2004. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. Pg xix. wku-tjs

Dissent and debate depend upon the  [...] a fugitive and suspect activity.

There is no pure society—we must recognize impossibility.
Žižek, [Slavoj, Sublime Object of Ideology, ‘89
It is the merit of Ernest  [...] the acknowledgement of a fundamental antagonism. 

Perpetual violence.
Stavrakakis ’99 [Lacan and the Political, p. 99-101. uo-tjs]

Our age is clearly an age  [...] (seminar of 18 June 1958).

Their utopian politics can only situate itself against negativity. This guarantees stigmatization and extermination.
Stavrakakis ‘05 [“Negativity and Democratic Politics: radical democracy beyond reoccupation and conformism” in Radical Democracy, eds. Tonder and Thomassen ‘5

“The first response, one  [...] the “New Socialist Man” “