1st Edition
Psychoanalysis and Fascism A Reader
Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Fascism
Section 1 - The Fascist State of Mind
Chapter 1 - Bollas - The Fascist State of Mind (7383 words)
Chapter 2 - Diamond - Towards Eradicating the Unbearable: The Dangerous Allure of Fascistic States of Mind (11607 words)
Chapter 3 - McAfee - Trump and the Paranoid-Schizoid Politics of Ideality (3445 words)
Section 2 - Mass Psychology
Chapter 4 - Adorno - Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda (10034 words)
Chapter 5 - Kernberg - Malignant Narcissism and Large Group Regression (8937 words)
Chapter 6 - Rose - Total belief: delirium in the West (7398 words)
Section 3 - Masculinity and Perversion
Chapter 7 - Wieland - Masculinity and the Fascist State of Mind (5916 words)
Chapter 8 - Grand - Fascism and the Web of Perversion (8382 words)
Section 4 - Psychosocial Approaches
Chapter 9 - Reich - Authoritarian Family Ideology and the Mass Psychology of Fascism (12766 words)
Chapter 10 - Toscano - Capitalism Without Capitalism: Fascism According to Žižek (6925 words)
Chapter 11 - Frosh - Studies in prejudice: Theorizing anti-Semitism in the wake of the Nazi Holocaust (6750 words)
Section 5 - Afterword
Chapter 12 - Salberg - "Don't You See I'm Burning?": Fascism Amnesia and the Failure of Witnessing (4624 words)
Conclusion: Fascism Terminable and Interminable
Directions for Future Research and Further Readings
Biography
Alasdair Cannon is a British-Australian writer and independent researcher based in London. He is the author of Infinite Discontent: Writings on the Allure of Fascism (eidolon ink, 2024) and holds an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies from Birkbeck, University of London.
Tom Fielder, PhD, is an Associate Lecturer at the Centre for Psychosocial Research, Birkbeck, University of London, and a member of the Executive Board of the Association for Psychosocial Studies
“In the present conjuncture, authoritarianism has spread across the world and fascism is looming. How can we understand the appeal of these destructive trends and begin to oppose them? In this inspiring Reader, Alasdair Cannon and Tom Fielder provide some essential texts bringing psychoanalysis to bear on these questions. Their own Introduction and Conclusion draws this material together into a powerful new account of the dynamics of fascism (the ‘fascist state of fantasy’) that sets the agenda for political and psychoanalytic resistance. This is an essential text for a deeply troubling world.”
- Stephen Frosh, Emeritus Professor, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
