Nationalism and the Body Politic

✍ Scribed by Lene Auestad

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Series: The New International Library of Group Analysis
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
About the Editor and Contributors
New International Library of Group Analysis Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Bodies and Boundaries: Xenophobic Imaginings
Editor’s introduction to Chapter One
Chapter One Fortress hypochondria: health and safety
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Two
Chapter Two “Budapest, the capital of Hungarians”: rhetoric, images, and symbols of the Hungarian extreme right movements
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Three
Chapter Three Idealised sameness and orchestrated hatred: extreme and mainstream nationalism in Norway
Part II: Constellations of Nationalism
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Four
Chapter Four Funeral policy: the case of mourning populism in Poland
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Five
Chapter Five The theory of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification as the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of groups and group-like social systems
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Six
Chapter Six The schizoanalysis of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, or the political between schizophrenia and paranoia
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Seven
Chapter Seven Fundamentalism, Nazism, and inferiority
Part III: History, Longing, Identification
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight The Mexican: phantasy, trauma, and history
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Nine
Chapter Nine Psychoanalysis and peace: Erich Fromm on history, politics, and the nation
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Ten
Chapter Ten The making of the isotype character in the panoptic system and its relation to globalised nationalism
Part IV: The “I” and Mourning
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Eleven
Chapter Eleven The evil I retreat from in myself: nationalism and das Ding
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Twelve
Chapter Twelve Between fantasy and melancholia: lack, otherness, and violence
Appendix Introducing Psychoanalysis and Politics: a conversation with Lene Auestad and Jonathan Davidoff
Index