The Ideology of Hatred : The Psychic Power of Discourse / Niza Yanay.
2022
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Title
The Ideology of Hatred : The Psychic Power of Discourse / Niza Yanay.
Author
Yanay, Niza, author.
ISBN
9780823292998
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (168 p.)
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10.1515/9780823292998 doi
Summary
The 21st century might well be called the age of hatred. This is not because there is more violence in the world but because hatred has been transformed from a concept perceived to be a by-product of personal or collective violence into a discursive field. But what if longstanding antagonisms, especially those between social groups, turned out to involve desire rather than revulsion? The Ideology of Hatred develops a psychosocial framework for understanding this new phenomenon by interrogating unconscious mechanisms within national discourse. It opens new and timely venues for thinking about the paradoxes of love and hate while raising questions about social attachment and otherness. Is it possible that hatred operates by maintaining a safe closeness, enhancing the illusion of separateness as well as a sense of proximity at one and the same time? Could it be that love actually survives through the discourse of hatred as an invisible relation of attachment, necessary but unthinkable? A key term in the book is the "political unconscious," a concept signifying the transformation of the unthinkable into a language that disavows the desire of and for the Other. Invoking this and other psychoanalytic concepts, the book proposes that at the heart of all national conflicts lies a riddle: the enigma of desire. The discourse of hatred works today as both a defense mechanism and as a political fantasy whose dream is to annihilate the Other of desire, that familial and different, threatening and intimate Other. Yet because love-in-hatred is denied but not erased, love can therefore also be reimagined. This suggests that untying and recognizing relations of intimacy and dependency can, under certain circumstances, change the discourse of hatred into relations of peace and even friendship. In addition to its strong theoretical component, the book is also based on extensive empirical research, especially into hate relations among Jews and between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Hatred and Its Vicissitudes
2. The Political Unconscious
3. The Mechanisms of Social Idealization and Splitting
4. The Lure of Proximity and the Fear of Dependency
5. From Justice to Political Friendship
Notes
Index
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Hatred and Its Vicissitudes
2. The Political Unconscious
3. The Mechanisms of Social Idealization and Splitting
4. The Lure of Proximity and the Fear of Dependency
5. From Justice to Political Friendship
Notes
Index