Nationalism and the Body Politic

ISBN-13: 9781780491028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str.

Lene Auestad

Opis

This volume questions the recent revival of neo-nationalist policies in the light of what unconscious fantasies are involved in these developments. It examines both recent movements of right-wing extremism and the way in which rearticulated neo-ethnic ideas have been adopted by main stream politicians and in main stream public discourse. Politicians from other than the right-wing populist parties have tended to resist specific ways of talking that are considered too extremist, rather than their underlying frame of interpretation.

Governments across Europe have adopted anti-immigrant and anti-Roma policies. Xenophobia and hostility towards -others- is on the rise, along with appeals to -Tradition and Security-. -Cultures of fear- are linked with fantasies of fusion or -imagined sameness-. Alongside the image of the nation as a mother and/or father, Reich (1933) called attention to the fantasy of the nation as a body, echoed in Money-Kyrle's (1939) characterization of -group hypochondria- in connection with the burning of witches and heretics; -The Church, and State united to it, could tolerate no foreign body within itself, and turned ferociously upon any that it found.- To address the current political developments, the volume stresses the urgency of understanding the fantasies and affects which underpin them.

Spis treści

New International Library of Group Analysis Foreword , Introduction , Bodies and Boundaries: Xenophobic Imaginings , Editor’s introduction to Chapter One , Fortress hypochondria: health and safety , Editor’s introduction to Chapter Two , “Budapest, the capital of Hungarians”: Rhetoric, images, and symbols of the Hungarian extreme right movements , Editor’s introduction to Chapter Three , Idealised sameness and orchestrated hatred: Extreme and mainstream nationalism in Norway , Constellations of Nationalism , Editor’s introduction to Chapter Four , Funeral policy: the case of mourning populism in Poland , Editor’s introduction to Chapter Five , The theory of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification as the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of groups and group-like social systems , Editor’s introduction to Chapter Six , The schizoanalysis of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, or the political between schizophrenia and paranoia , Editor’s introduction to Chapter Seven , Fundamentalism, Nazism, and inferiority , History, Longing, Identification , Editor’s introduction to Chapter Eight , The Mexican: phantasy, trauma, and history , Editor’s introduction to Chapter Nine , Psychoanalysis and peace: Erich Fromm on history, politics, and the nation , Editor’s introduction to Chapter Ten , The making of the isotype character in the panoptic system and its relation to globalised nationalism 1 , The “I” and Mourning , Editor’s introduction to Chapter Eleven , The evil I retreat from in myself: nationalism and das Ding , Editor’s introduction to Chapter Twelve , Between fantasy and melancholia: Lack, otherness, and violence , Appendix: Introducing Psychoanalysis and Politics: A conversation with Lene Auestad and Jonathan Davidoff

O autorze

Lene Auestad