Since the time, I have started working on rural energy transition from 2003, one question that bothered and disturbed me was my inability to find out a psychological structure behind rural energy definition.
Over the last twenty years of struggle, every work that I have been doing related to energy transition or rural energy transition had its core being based on people. If it was, is or has been based on people, then ideally, a real, symbolic, imaginary definitional space of rural energy transition should also be there. I struggled to find it out for 20 years. Then, I came across the new nomenclatures of just, people centric energy transition and a close reading of Lacan helped me to find out finally a broad structure to my last twenty years of work on energy transition. The broad structure of the last twenty years of my work on "Energy Transition" or if I may call it as "People Centric Energy Transition" can be largely seen through the below structural flow shown in the exhibit below :
Once, I framed or superimposed this structure to my twenty years of work and reading on energy transition and juxtaposed Lacan into it, the spaces between Real, Imaginary (The Gap Between Real and Symbolic), Symbolic opened.
It is over here, I finally got an answer to the struggle led education of the past. Yes, the last twenty years of my work or many work that I read was always having a human being and a Freudian pyschoanalytic construct of that being within. In that pyschoanalytic construct of the Real Lens of People Centric Energy Transition, the being was like a Real Ego. The Symbolic Lens of People Centric Energy Transition was like a Ego Real and the Gap or The Imaginary Lens of People Centric Energy Transition was like the Super Ego. The Real Lens of People Centric Energy Transition is like the Idealised Real Version of the Psychological Self whereas the Ego Real (Symbolic Lens of People Centric Energy Transition) is the Self which wants to mould itself the way the Other wants to see it. It is over here the Ego Real or The Symbolic Self of People Centric Energy Transition uses algebra, arithmetic, modelling to do projections, scenario buildings to create and project a self that has to be seen by someone else or the other in the society within its various actors.
However, the Gap between the Real and Symbolic Lens of People Centric Energy Transition is the Super Ego which is always having an ethical or moral clash in its definitional lens through its varied forms of evolutionary frameworks.
Finally, after twenty years of struggle, I could discover the Psychoanalytic Self imbibed within the definitional frame of Energy Transition or People Centric Energy Transition. The idea emerged on the New Day of New Year 2024.
On a year when a Green Day is coming, the new day told me to be more grounded in research to find out the psychoanalytic self of People Centric Energy Transition more and more!
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