Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump Conservatism, Liberalism, and Neoliberal Populisms /

• Main Author: Samuels, Robert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences
• Subjects: Psychology.; Political theory.; Psychoanalysis.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Critical psychology.; Critical Psychology.; Political Theory.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

This book outlines a new model for global social justice movements that is based on Freud and Lacan’s central insights regarding the unconscious, repetition, drives, and transference. Since most of our current social issues are global in nature, Bob Samuels convincingly argues that we need a global...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Victim Politics: Psychoanalyzing the Neoliberal Conservative Counter-Revolution
• Chapter 2. Beyond Hillary Clinton: Obsessional Narcissism and the Failure of the Liberal Class
• Chapter 3. Trump and Sanders on the Couch: Neoliberal Populism on the Left and the Right
• Chapter 4. Global Solidarity and Global Government: The Universal Subject of Psychoanalysis and Democracy
• Chapter 5. Conclusion.