1st Edition

Nationalism and the Body Politic

By Lene Auestad Copyright 2014
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

This volume aims to question 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 mainstream politicians and in mainstream public discourse. Politicians from other than the right-wing populist... Read more
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

Biography

Lene Auestad