ABSTRACT
While co-authoring a piece on Psychoanalytic Theory and Border Security with Mark B. Salter (Salter and Mutlu 2012), I came to appreciate the significance of the interaction between objects and our emotions, how rational actions are equally grounded in psychological and emotional registers. At the time, I suggested that a successful securitization move requires an a priori affective and emotional connection between the audience and the referent object.
