Fear of breakdown : politics and psychoanalysis / Noëlle Mcafee

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McAfee, Noëlle, 1960- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New directions in critical theoryPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780231549912
0231549911

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fear of breakdown.DDC classification:

320.01 23

LOC classification:

JC423 .M1265 2019eb

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Contents:

Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; By Way of a Preface; Introduction; 1. Defining Politics; 2. Psychoanalysis and Political Theory; 3. Politics and the Fear of Breakdown; 4. Practicing Democracy; 5. Democratic Imaginaries; 6. Becoming Citizens; 7. Definitions of the Situation; 8. Deliberating Otherwise; 9. Political Works of Mourning; 10. Public Will and Action; 11. Radical Imaginaries; 12. Nationalism and the Fear of Breakdown; Conclusion: Working Through the Breakdown; Notes; References; Index.

Summary: Noëlle McAfee uses psychoanalytic theory to explore the subterranean anxieties behind current crises and the ways in which democratic practices can help work through seemingly intractable political conflicts. Fear of Breakdown contends that politics needs something that only psychoanalysis has been able to offer: an understanding of how to work through anxieties, ambiguity, fragility, and loss in order to create a more democratic politics.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Noëlle McAfee uses psychoanalytic theory to explore the subterranean anxieties behind current crises and the ways in which democratic practices can help work through seemingly intractable political conflicts. Fear of Breakdown contends that politics needs something that only psychoanalysis has been able to offer: an understanding of how to work through anxieties, ambiguity, fragility, and loss in order to create a more democratic politics.