The politics of destruction : three contemporary configurations of hallucination : USSR, Polish PiS Party, Islamic State / François Bafoil.
2021
JC480 .B3413 2021
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The politics of destruction : three contemporary configurations of hallucination : USSR, Polish PiS Party, Islamic State / François Bafoil.
Author
Bafoil, François, author.
Uniform Title
Politiques de la destruction. English
ISBN
9783030819422 (electronic bk.)
3030819426 (electronic bk.)
9783030819415
3030819418
3030819426 (electronic bk.)
9783030819415
3030819418
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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©2021
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English
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Translated from French.
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10.1007/978-3-030-81942-2 doi
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JC480 .B3413 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
321.9019
Summary
When applied to social science, psychoanalytic concepts make it possible to analyze totalitarian action and its derivative, authoritarian action, by highlighting what such regimes have in common: the destruction of frames of reference for space and time; their replacement of those reference points with a restrictive "surreality" and the assignation of individuals in the social space in terms of the love or hatred attributed to them by those in power. Whether in Stalinist Bolshevism, posited here as the matrix of the "totalitarian personality" in its extreme form of totalitarianism with the Islamic State; or in a more diluted variant in the Polish ruling party Law and Justice (PiS), each is characterized by the negation of temporal and spatial distance, and therefore by the negation of causal links, displacement and transformation of experience. These components are specific to the unconscious which, in dreams as Freud considered, acts upon factual datum, denies it, and reproduces it in another way, one that conforms more closely to the dreamers desires. For this reason, the politics that arise from these regimes have much in common with a hallucination. Francois Bafoil is an Emeritus Senior researcher, CNRS, at the Center for international research (CERI) Sciences Po, Paris, France. An expert of eastern Europe and energy politics, he is also a specialist of the relationship between psychoanalysis and social sciences, through the figures of Freud and Weber.
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CERI series in international relations and political economy.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One: Psychoanalysis and History. The Unconscious and Reason
Chapter Two: The Matrix of the Totalitarian System. The Hallucinated Soviet Personality
Chapter Three: The Law and Justice party in Poland. Family romances, national romances
Chapter Four: The personality of the jihadist terrorist. Atemporal spaces of terror
Chapter Five: The Unconscious and Political Science. A Freudian Reading of Weberian Types of Domination
Chapter Six: Conclusion.
Chapter Two: The Matrix of the Totalitarian System. The Hallucinated Soviet Personality
Chapter Three: The Law and Justice party in Poland. Family romances, national romances
Chapter Four: The personality of the jihadist terrorist. Atemporal spaces of terror
Chapter Five: The Unconscious and Political Science. A Freudian Reading of Weberian Types of Domination
Chapter Six: Conclusion.