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Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics - Fatherlands in mothers' hands (Paperback, New)
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Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics - Fatherlands in mothers' hands (Paperback, New)
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Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in mothers'
hands is a playful exploration of how people's desires, fantasies,
and emotions shape political events and social phenomena. It
highlights the mythical sources of today's political projects, the
power of political imagination, and the function of symbolism in
political thought. Eszter Salgo argues that the driving force for
the formation of political communities is fantasy - 'illusions' in
a Winnicottian sense, 'phantasies' in a Lacanian sense, 'phantoms'
as described by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, and 'dreams' as
interpreted by Sandor Ferenczi. She introduces the metaphor of the
'fantastic family' as a symbolic representation of political
communities, both to reflect on people's deeply felt desire to find
in public life the resolution, love, and wholeness of early
childhood, and to unveil the political elite's readiness to don the
mask of the 'ideal parent'. The book is divided into two parts. The
first part of the book explores the theories of Donald Winnicott
and Jacques Lacan: the matrimony on the stage of politics between
the 'good-enough mother' and the Symbolic Father which inaugurates
the story of democracy's 'fantastic family'. The second part
presents the 'fantastic families' of selected countries such as
Hungary, Italy, and the world community to explain the
proliferation of cosmogony projects, and to document the failure of
the political elites to offer a satisfactory performance of their
maternal and paternal functions. Psychoanalytic Reflections on
Politics: Fatherlands in mothers' hands presents a new way of
considering the art of politics, based on the understanding that
people perceive reality through imagination and unconscious
fantasy. It will be of interest to psychoanalysts, and academics
from across the disciplines of politics, psychology, anthropology,
sociology, philosophy, literature, and art.
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