Nationalism and the Body Politic: Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia.

305 Pages·2013·1.303 MB·English

by  Lene Auestad (ed.)

CHAPTERTITLE I
NATIONALISM AND
THE BODY POLITIC
NEW INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF GROUP ANALYSIS
Series Editor: Earl Hopper
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NATIONALISM AND
THE BODY POLITIC
Psychoanalysis and the Rise of
Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia
Edited by
Lene Auestad
First published in 2014 by
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CONTENTS
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS viii
NEW INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF GROUP
ANALYSIS FOREWORD by Earl Hopper xii
INTRODUCTIONby Lene Auestad xv
PART I: BODIES AND BOUNDARIES:
XENOPHOBIC IMAGININGS
Editor’s introduction to Chapter One 3
CHAPTER ONE
Fortress hypochondria: health and safety 5
Julia Borossa and Caroline Rooney
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Two 21
CHAPTER TWO
“Budapest, the capital of Hungarians”: rhetoric, images, 23
and symbols of the Hungarian extreme right movements
Ferenc Ero˝s
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Editor’s introduction to Chapter Three 39
CHAPTER THREE
Idealised sameness and orchestrated hatred: extreme and 41
mainstream nationalism in Norway
Lene Auestad
PART II: CONSTELLATIONS OF NATIONALISM
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Four 63
CHAPTER FOUR
Funeral policy: the case of mourning populism in Poland 65
Szymon Wróbel
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Five 85
CHAPTER FIVE
The theory of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification 87
as the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life
of groups and group-like social systems
Earl Hopper
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Six 107
CHAPTER SIX
The schizoanalysis of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, 109
or the political between schizophrenia and paranoia
Audrone˙ Zˇukauskait˙e
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Seven 127
CHAPTER SEVEN
Fundamentalism, Nazism, and inferiority 129
Haakon Flemmen
PART III: HISTORY, LONGING, IDENTIFICATION
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Eight 143
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Mexican: phantasy, trauma, and history 145
Jonathan Davidoff
CONTENTS vii
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Nine 161
CHAPTER NINE
Psychoanalysis and peace: Erich Fromm on history, 163
politics, and the nation
Martyn Housden
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Ten 185
CHAPTER TEN
The making of the isotype character in the panoptic 187
system and its relation to globalised nationalism
Svein Tjelta
PART IV: THE “I” AND MOURNING
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Eleven 207
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The evil I retreat from in myself: nationalism and das Ding 209
Calum Neill
Editor’s introduction to Chapter Twelve 223
CHAPTER TWELVE
Between fantasy and melancholia: lack, otherness, 225
and violence
Margarita Palacios
APPENDIX
Introducing Psychoanalysis and Politics: a conversation 247
with Lene Auestad and Jonathan Davidoff
Conducted and edited by Steffen Krüger
INDEX 267
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
Lene Auestad, PhD, is research fellow in philosophy, University
of Oslo, affiliated with the Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and
Religious Minorities, Oslo. She moved to the UK to pursue her long-
standing interest in British psychoanalysis. She founded and co-ordi-
nates the conference series Psychoanalysis and Politics. Working at
the interface of psychoanalytic thinking and ethics/political theory,
her writing has focused on the themes of emotions, prejudice, and
minority rights. She is the editor of Psychoanalysis and Politics.
Exclusion and the Politics of Representation (Karnac, 2012) and has co-
edited a book on Hannah Arendt in Norwegian (Akademika, 2011).
Julia Borossa is director of the research centre and of the program-
mes in psychoanalysis at Middlesex University. She is the editor of
Sandor Ferenczi: Selected Writings (1999) and (with Ivan Ward) of
Psychoanalysis, Fascism, Fundamentalism (2009), and the author of
Hysteria (2001). Her work on the histories and politics of psycho-
analysis has appeared in edited collections and journals, including the
Oxford Literary Review, the Journal of European Studies, and the Journal
of Postcolonial Writing.
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ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
Jonathan Davidoff trained as a psychotherapist at the Tavistock
Centre in London and works as an honorary psychotherapist at
Middlesex University Hospital in London. He is a research psycholo-
gist working in the private sector and PhD candidate at the
Psychoanalysis Unit of University College London. He has been one
of the co-ordinators of Psychoanalysis and Politics since 2010. His
research aims to combine psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, litera-
ture, and historiography to understand social and individual
phenomena. He has publications on the topics of exclusion, social and
individual representations, and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory.
Ferenc Ero˝s is senior research fellow at the Research Institute for
Cognitive Neurosciences and Psychology at the Research Center for
Natural Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and
Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Humanities of the
University of Pécs, where he directs a postgraduate programme in
psychoanalytic theory. His main research areas include history and
theory of psychoanalysis, and social psychology of prejudice and
discrimination. In these fields he has several publications in
Hungarian, English, and German.
Haakon Flemmen is a journalist, writer, and historian of ideas. He is
culture editor of the Norwegian national daily newspaper Klasse-
kampen and is among the editors of Arr – The Norwegian Journal of the
History of Ideas. His research interests include Norwegian intellectual
history, pre-war history of Norwegian philosophy, and the history of
psychoanalysis.
Earl Hopper, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, is a psychoanalyst, group analyst
and organisational consultant in private practice in London. He is a
supervisor and training analyst for the Institute of Group Analysis,
the British Association of Psychotherapists, and the London Centre for
Psychotherapy, a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and a
member of the Group Analytic Society. He is an Honorary Tutor at the
Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and a member of the Faculty of the
Post-Doctoral Program at Adelphi University, New York. He is also a
Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, a former
President of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy
and Group Processes, a former Chairman of the Association of