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        <journal-title>Indian Journal of Social Enquiry</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">IJSE</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">applied</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0974-9012</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Prof Gitanjali Chawla</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">IJSE1170002</article-id>
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        <article-title>Deliberating Articulation: A Postmodern Appropriation</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Nagpal</surname>
            <given-names>Ruchi</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="aff1">Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi</aff>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-09-02">
        <month>09</month>
        <day>02</day>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>17</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>20</fpage>
      <lpage>29</lpage>
      <abstract>
        <p>Articulation theory is a recent phenomenon which has gained currency in the
recent times for the reasons which can fairly be attributed to the zeitgeist.
Articulation, which might simply mean “to express” and which, in sociological
terms would mean appropriation of certain forms and practices gets extended
and convoluted as it enters the postmodern domain. Articulation as a concept
walks a tight rope as within its broad rubric it subsumes all expressions and
manifestations. The current paper tries to deliberate upon the conception of
articulation by conceptualising the distinction between deliberate articulations
and unconscious articulations. As it does, the paper delves into the Freudian
theory of Unconscious which holds the fundamental problems for such a dyad
by explicating unconscious articulations like ‘bundle actions’ and ‘Freudian
slips’ which are more expressive than conscious attempts. The paper, thus,
eventually looks at the postmodern appropriation of the concept of articulation
which transcends words as well as linguistic and paralinguistic mediums. It
couches the discourse of articulation within the embryo of sublime, the most
powerful postmodern force, which defines postmodernism more prominently
as opposed to words and artifacts. The paper, as it brings the argument home
keeps the debate open for all essential deliberations vis-à-vis articulation and
tries to necessitate the dialogue further.</p>
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        <kwd>Articulation</kwd>
        <kwd>Postmodernism</kwd>
        <kwd>Unconscious</kwd>
        <kwd>Freud</kwd>
        <kwd>Sublime</kwd>
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