Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and(26/30)

 

Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Anarchopathology of Homelandosis(26/30)

M. Sadeghi Janbahan

Translated by Maryam Sadeghi 



A Philosophical-Anarchological Elucidation of Homeland, Borders, and Identity in the Existential Horizon of Anarchic and Free Life


Homeland as a Prelude to Conscious Statelessness

In the theoretical foundations of Philosophical Anarchology, homeland is not the end of emotional attachment, but the beginning of a moral and conscious passage toward conscious statelessness. A condition in which human beings, liberated from the determinism of geography and history, rediscover themselves within the horizon of a liberating and anarchic cosmopolitanism.

Homeland, in this perspective, serves as a “prelude” through which the individual transcends compulsory belongings and attains ethical and political self-awareness. This transcendence is not a negation of homeland, but a step beyond it—a movement from the constraints of place toward the freedom of global choice.

Conscious statelessness is not the endpoint of flight or escape, but a deliberate and responsible phase in which one redefines identity not by geography or nationality, but by dignity, liberty, and ethics. In this context, enforced attachments to soil and ancestry give way to ethical, voluntary, and multicultural bonds—forms of relation that enable peaceful and emancipatory coexistence.

From the standpoint of Philosophical Anarchology, this passage—despite structural resistances—is a foundational necessity for realizing an anarchic mode of living, one in which no form of domination, including the domination of belonging, is permitted to prevail over human dignity and freedom.

Homeland: Not Destination but Prelude

Within the horizon of Philosophical Anarchology, homeland is neither a fixed, sacred truth nor an eternal residence; it is a transitional, unstable, and relative position—a gate toward emancipation rather than an altar of worship. Anarchology views homeland not as a final goal but as a moment in the process of moral becoming—a moment that gains meaning only when surpassed.

Homeland becomes ethical only when it becomes transitional: a passage from imitated selfhood to elective subjectivity, from imposed identity to freedom of becoming, from unwilled belonging to a conscious bond with the global other. When homeland is mistaken for the ultimate destination, freedom is sacrificed for security, will is subdued by belonging, and the human becomes a subject to the will of power.

In anarchic existence, homeland is only a beginning—a prelude to a new order, not a myth to be worshipped. Only by viewing homeland as a transitional point can we be freed from the imprisonment of borders, flags, and ownership, and step into a way of life where dignity itself becomes homeland.


The Anarchopathology of Homelandosis: Homeland as a Paternal Shadow of Domination

From the standpoint of Philosophical Anarchopathology, extreme patriotism—described here as homelandosis—is not merely a political or emotional tendency, but a psycho-cognitive response to identity anxiety and the existential fear of not belonging. In this psychic structure, homeland assumes a paternal function: protector, owner, and sovereign. Like the authoritarian father, homeland provides security, but only at the cost of obedience

This kind of homeland is not a space for the flourishing of individuality and human dignity, but a dominative structure that, under the banners of “soil,” “blood,” and “history,” manufactures obedient, compliant, and pre-defined identities. Homeland, in this framework, ceases to be a free habitat and becomes a shadow of domination that buries liberty beneath imposed borders and inherited identities.

From this angle, homelandosis represents a disorder—an identity, cognitive, and philosophical pathology—in which the subject buries herself within a patriarchal and mythified concept rather than engaging in free self-definition and meaning-making. It is a myth cloaked in security, producing structures of submission.

Anarchology, through its critical deconstruction of such constructs, dismantles the sacred and paternal image of homeland, submitting it to moral, psychological, and political critique. In this vision, homeland only gains ethical meaning when it is dethroned from its authoritarian position and transformed into a field of free, ethical, and dignity-based participation.


Citation:

Sadeghi Janbahan, Mahmoud. (2025). Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Anarchopathology of Homelandosis: From Homelandosis as Prison to Cosmopolitanism as the Horizon of Anarchic Liberty (26/30).

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