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The Politics of Destruction: Three Contemporary Configurations of Hallucination: USSR, Polish Pis Party, Islamic State - Couverture rigide

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Bafoil, François

 
9783030819415: The Politics of Destruction: Three Contemporary Configurations of Hallucination: USSR, Polish Pis Party, Islamic State
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ISBN 10 : 3030819418 ISBN 13 : 9783030819415
Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021

Synopsis

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 dreamer's desires. For this reason, the politics that arise from these regimes have much in common with a hallucination.

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À propos de l'auteur

François 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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Éditeur
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3030819418
ISBN 13 
9783030819415
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
149
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