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Author McAfee, Noëlle, 1960- author.

Title Fear of Breakdown : Politics and Psychoanalysis / Noëlle Mcafee.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages).
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Series New Directions in Critical Theory
New directions in critical theory.
Note Print version record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Subject Democracy -- Psychological aspects.
Deliberative democracy.
Psychoanalysis -- Political aspects.
Political psychology.
Critical theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
Political psychology. (OCoLC)fst01069667
Critical theory. (OCoLC)fst00883690
Deliberative democracy. (OCoLC)fst01744432
Democracy -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00890093
Psychoanalysis -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01081248
Other Form: Print version: McAfee, Noëlle, 1960- Fear of breakdown. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] 9780231192682 (DLC) 2018047977 (OCoLC)1089840820
ISBN 9780231549912 (electronic book)
0231549911 (electronic book)
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