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The politics of destruction: three contemporary configurations of hallucination: USSR, Polish PiS Party, Islamic State

In: The sciences Po series in international relations and political economy

Bafoil, François

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Abstract

When applied to social science, psychoanalytic concepts make it possible to analyze totalitarian action and its derivative, authoritarian action, by highlighting what such regimes have in common: the destruction of frames of reference for space and time; their replacement of those reference points with a restrictive "surreality"; and the assignation of individuals in the social space in terms of the love or hatred attributed to them by those in power. Whether in Stalinist Bolshevism, posited here as the matrix of the "totalitarian personality"; in its extreme form of totalitarianism with the Islamic State; or in a more diluted variant in the Polish ruling party 'Law and Justice' (PiS), each is characterized by the negation of temporal and spatial distance, and therefore by the negation of causal links, displacement and transformation of experience. These components are specific to the unconscious which, in dreams as Freud considered, acts upon factual datum, denies it, and reproduces it in another way, one that conforms more closely to the dreamer's desires. For this reason, the politics that arise from these regimes have much in common with a hallucination. François Bafoil is an Emeritus Senior researcher, CNRS, at the Center for international research (CERI) Sciences Po, Paris, France. An expert of eastern Europe and energy politics, he is also a specialist of the relationship between psychoanalysis and social sciences, through the figures of Freud and Weber.

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The Politics of Destruction: Three Contemporary Configurations of Hallucination: USSR, Polish PiS Party, Islamic State

In: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Ser.

Bafoil, François; Hurwitz, Laurie

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Psychoanalysis and History: The Unconscious and Reason -- 1 The Unconscious and Politics -- 1.1 The Construction of the Surreality -- 1.2 Negation and Repetition -- 2 The Alterities of Reason -- 2.1 The Other of Reason and Other Reason -- 2.2 The Question of Origin: Repression and Repetition -- 2 The Matrix of the Totalitarian System: The Hallucinated Soviet Personality -- 1 The Other of Reason: The Psychological Core -- 1.1 Blessed Alterity -- 1.2 Love and Guilt: The Process of Internalizing Surreality -- 1.3 The Creation of the Myth -- 2 The Decisive Politics of Destruction of the Old-World: Collectivization -- 2.1 The Construction of the Configuration of the Enemy -- 2.2 Soviet Modernization and Depeasantization -- 3 Resistance and Limits of a Deadly Jouissance -- 3 The Law and Justice Party in Poland: Family Romances, National Romances -- 1 The Construction of Images and the Revalorization of the Myth of Polishness -- 1.1 Smolensk: Death and Transfiguration -- 1.2 The Holy Family -- 1.3 The Dead Brother -- 2 The Bad and the Good: "Them" and "Us" -- 2.1 The Opponents -- 2.2 "Us": Social Policies -- 3 Tribal Nationalism: Repetition -- 3.1 The Enlarged Tribal Consciousness -- 3.2 Antisemitism Today -- 4 The Personality of the Jihadist Terrorist: Atemporal Spaces of Terror -- 1 The "Totalitarian Personality," Continuity and Rupture -- 2 Ego-Ideal and Ideal Ego: From Childhood to Its Return via the Other -- 3 Narcissistic Wound and a Return to Origin -- 3.1 The Lacking Double Origin -- 3.2 Desire and Absence -- 3.3 The Word and the Thing -- 3.4 Father and Mother -- 5 The Unconscious and Political Science: A Freudian Reading of Weberian Types of Domination -- 1 Tradition -- 2 Uncertainty of Time and the Charismatic Personality -- 3 Bureaucracy and the Rational-Legal Order -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.