This article aims to expand the social-theoretical and psychoanalytic range of research on ontological in/security, by exploring parallel concerns addressed by Beck, Kristeva, Butler and Zizek. These ...

The study explores the connection between a state's foreign and security policy and citizens' sense of ontological security (OS), defined as a sense of certainty and continuity of national identity.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract What does it mean to search for trust—the constitutive element of feeling ontologically secure—in the context of protracted conflict, trauma, ...