ABSTRACT

This paper discusses humanitarian compassion within the Derridean notion of hospitality. Reflecting on the age of Imperial Humanitarianism where Evangelists formed administrative missions to save the souls of the slaves in the colonial provinces of Europe, it aims to address the link of compassion with Christianity and colonialism. Setting the Christian scene of humanitarianism, hospitality as a Derridean concept is introduced to depict that compassion and aid work in-between certain ‘guest and host’ territories. The impossibility of hospitality under these circumstances highlight the play of power relations in which the other is produced. While Derrida argues that hospitality cannot be power-balanced unless the language of the host is deconstructed, psychology in the humanitarian sector performs an ‘emotional hospitality’ which seeks to extract a story of confession. Ψ as method works to open a discussion on suffering, Christianity, and colonialism as a modern form of conversion: the confession of truth in a psychological discourse. Challenging compassion and aid as constituted in psychological discourse, this paper invites therapists to rethink the contextualisation under which these ideals emerged while introducing a discussion on what the language of psychology 'does' to refugees.

摘要

本文讨论了德里达热情好客概念中的人道主义同情心。它反思了帝国人道主义时代，当时福音传教士组建了行政使命来拯救欧洲殖民地省份奴隶的灵魂，旨在解决同情心与基督教和殖民主义的联系。以基督教的人道主义场景为背景，介绍了德里达概念中的热情好客，以描述某些“宾主”领土之间的同情和援助工作。在这种情况下，热情好客是不可能的，这凸显了产生他人的权力关系的发挥。虽然德里达认为，除非主人的语言被解构，否则热情好客就不可能达到权力平衡，人道主义领域的心理学表现出一种“情感招待”，旨在提取一个忏悔的故事。Ψ 作为一种方法，致力于开启一场关于苦难、基督教和殖民主义作为现代皈依形式的讨论：在心理话语中承认真理。本文挑战了心理话语中的同情心和援助，邀请治疗师重新思考这些理想出现的情境，同时引入了关于心理学语言对难民“做什么”的讨论。