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