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This book helps us understand the current resurgence of social
prejudice against ethnic minority groups, the logics of
scapegoating and the resulting violence. Our time is characterised
by a growth in expressed hostility and violence towards people who
are perceived as 'others'. Hatred towards and discrimination
against minorities is on the rise. This book presents a new
understanding of prejudice, racism, antisemitism, xenophobia,
islamophobia, sexism and homophobia. It combines philosophy with
psychoanalytic thinking, sociology and psycho-social studies,
analysing the unconscious elements of social processes. The author
makes a case for framing a questioning of prejudice, not in terms
of normality versus pathology or deviance, but in what is socially
unconscious. Hypocrisy and double standards are inherent in our
social practices, reflecting the contradictions present in our
thinking about these issues: that we both believe and do not
believe in equality.
This volume aims to question the recent revival of neo-nationalist
policies in the light of what unconscious fantasies are involved in
these developments. It examines both recent movements of right-wing
extremism and the way in which rearticulated neo-ethnic ideas have
been adopted by mainstream politicians and in mainstream public
discourse. Politicians from other than the right-wing populist
parties have tended to resist specific ways of talking that are
considered too extremist, rather than their underlying frame of
interpretation. Governments across Europe have adopted
anti-immigrant and anti-Roma policies. Xenophobia and hostility
towards 'others' is on the rise, along with appeals to "Tradition
and Security". 'Cultures of fear' are linked with fantasies of
fusion or 'imagined sameness'. Alongside the image of the nation as
a mother and/or father, Reich (1933) called attention to the
fantasy of the nation as a body, echoed in Money-Kyrle's (1939)
characterization of 'group hypochondria' in connection with the
burning of witches and heretics.
This volume aims to question the recent revival of neo-nationalist
policies in the light of what unconscious fantasies are involved in
these developments. It examines both recent movements of right-wing
extremism and the way in which rearticulated neo-ethnic ideas have
been adopted by mainstream politicians and in mainstream public
discourse. Politicians from other than the right-wing populist
parties have tended to resist specific ways of talking that are
considered too extremist, rather than their underlying frame of
interpretation. Governments across Europe have adopted
anti-immigrant and anti-Roma policies. Xenophobia and hostility
towards 'others' is on the rise, along with appeals to "Tradition
and Security". 'Cultures of fear' are linked with fantasies of
fusion or 'imagined sameness'. Alongside the image of the nation as
a mother and/or father, Reich (1933) called attention to the
fantasy of the nation as a body, echoed in Money-Kyrle's (1939)
characterization of 'group hypochondria' in connection with the
burning of witches and heretics.
This book questions the junctions of the private and the public
when it comes to trauma, loss, and the work of mourning - notions
which, it is argued, challenge our very ideas of the individual and
the shared. It asks, to paraphrase Adorno, 'What do we mean by
"working through the past"?, 'How is a shared work of mourning to
be understood?', and 'With what legitimacy do we consider a
particular social or cultural practice to be "mourning"?' Rather
than aiming to present a diagnosis of the political present, this
volume instead takes one step back to pose the question of what
mourning might mean and what its social dimension consists in.
Contributors reflect on the trauma of the Holocaust, the
after-effects of the Vietnam War in the US, the Lebanese war-torn
experience, victims of the Pacific War in Taiwan, and the Chilean
dictatorship.
This book examines the nature of social exclusion and the aspects
of the politics of representation in the social, interpersonal, and
political field. It questions how psychoanalysis can be used to
think about the invisible and subtle processes of power over
symbolic representation.
This book helps us understand the current resurgence of social
prejudice against ethnic minority groups, the logics of
scapegoating and the resulting violence. Our time is characterised
by a growth in expressed hostility and violence towards people who
are perceived as 'others'. Hatred towards and discrimination
against minorities is on the rise. This book presents a new
understanding of prejudice, racism, antisemitism, xenophobia,
islamophobia, sexism and homophobia. It combines philosophy with
psychoanalytic thinking, sociology and psycho-social studies,
analysing the unconscious elements of social processes. The author
makes a case for framing a questioning of prejudice, not in terms
of normality versus pathology or deviance, but in what is socially
unconscious. Hypocrisy and double standards are inherent in our
social practices, reflecting the contradictions present in our
thinking about these issues: that we both believe and do not
believe in equality.
This book examines how people cannot escape being tainted, whether
actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless
manifestations. The essays encompass a wide range of theoretical
resources, methodological approaches and geo-political areas. They
describe how images and fragments of traumatic and violent
scenarios are transported from one generation's unconscious to that
of another, leading to cycles of repetition and retaliation,
restricting the freedom to imagine alternatives and inhabit
alternative positions. The authors all work within a psychosocial
framework by unsettling the boundaries between psyche-social. Four
themes are addressed: violence of speech, violence and domination,
repetition and violence, and the possibility of reparation or
renewal. Due to its theoretical engagements and the case studies
provided, this interdisciplinary collection will be of value to
postgraduate and undergraduate students of psychology, philosophy,
politics and history.
This book examines how people cannot escape being tainted, whether
actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless
manifestations. The essays encompass a wide range of theoretical
resources, methodological approaches and geo-political areas. They
describe how images and fragments of traumatic and violent
scenarios are transported from one generation's unconscious to that
of another, leading to cycles of repetition and retaliation,
restricting the freedom to imagine alternatives and inhabit
alternative positions. The authors all work within a psychosocial
framework by unsettling the boundaries between psyche-social. Four
themes are addressed: violence of speech, violence and domination,
repetition and violence, and the possibility of reparation or
renewal. Due to its theoretical engagements and the case studies
provided, this interdisciplinary collection will be of value to
postgraduate and undergraduate students of psychology, philosophy,
politics and history.
Thinking psychoanalytically about the nature of social exclusion
involves a self-questioning on the part of the interpreter. While
we may all have some experiences of having been subject to
stereotyping, silencing, discrimination and exclusion, it is also
the case that, as social beings, we all, to some extent,
participate in upholding these practices, often unconsciously.The
book poses the question of how psychoanalysis can be used to think
about the invisible and subtle processes of power over symbolic
representation, in the context of stereotyping and dehumanization:
What forces govern the state of affairs that determine who is an
'I' and who is an 'it' in the public sphere?Thinking in terms of
"containment," a communication which is denied a social space for
expression can be said to be actively stripped of meaning. Through
its original contribution of attending to, and interpreting
material that so far had seemed meaningless, psychoanalysis
demonstrates a capacity to reinstall meaning where none was
before--but how are such acts performed on a social level?When
common responsibility is displaced onto a suitable class or group
and its representatives, the end point is reached when the
individual is objectified and the social aspects of the process are
no longer recognized. His or her position becomes an illegitimate
one from which to speak--the person's subjectivity is excluded. The
book poses the question of how we can conceive of the 'how' and the
'why' of this phenomenon and of possible counter-actions.
This book questions the junctions of the private and the public
when it comes to trauma, loss, and the work of mourning - notions
which, it is argued, challenge our very ideas of the individual and
the shared. It asks, to paraphrase Adorno, 'What do we mean by
"working through the past"?, 'How is a shared work of mourning to
be understood?', and 'With what legitimacy do we consider a
particular social or cultural practice to be "mourning"?' Rather
than aiming to present a diagnosis of the political present, this
volume instead takes one step back to pose the question of what
mourning might mean and what its social dimension consists in.
Contributors reflect on the trauma of the Holocaust, the
after-effects of the Vietnam War in the US, the Lebanese war-torn
experience, victims of the Pacific War in Taiwan, and the Chilean
dictatorship.
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