Fantasy and Political Violence (eBook)

The Meaning of Anticommunism in Chile

Margarita Palacios (Autor)

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2009
133 Seiten
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
978-3-531-91737-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Dr. Margarita Palacios completed her doctoral thesis at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is now a lecturer at the School of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Inhalt

Foreword 6
Preface 8
Contents 9
Introduction 11
1 The Interpretations 13
2 A Divided Society: Thirty-three Years later 14
3 Theory of Violence 17
4 The Use of Psychoanalytical Theory 18
5 Methodology 21
6 Organization of the Book 22
First Part: Understanding Political Violence 25
Chapter 1: Otherness in Social Theory 26
1 The ‘Deviant’ Other 27
2 The Other as Ideology 28
3 Symbolic Interactionism: The Community of the Self and the Other 30
4 Post-Structuralism and the Other as Power 31
5 Concluding Remarks: Desire as the Other? 33
Chapter 2: On Sacredness and Transgression: Understanding Social Antagonism 35
1 The Sacred and the Profane 36
2 Emergence of Social Antagonism 38
3 Language and the Structure of Desire 41
4 Fantasy 43
5 Discussion and Conclusions 44
Chapter 3: Sexuality and Violence: Towards Feminine Ethics 47
1 The Key Nature of Sexuality 47
2 A Masculine Society: The Oedipus Complex and Morality 49
3 Feminine Passivity versus Male Activity 51
4 On Sexed Subjects: Fundamental Male and Female Fantasies 53
5 Sexed Enjoyment and Exclusion 54
6 On Asceticism, Mysticism and Dualism 55
7 Concluding Remarks: Towards Feminine Ethics 57
Chapter 4: Democracy and Violence 59
1 Discourse Rationality 62
2 Discourse Ethics 64
3 Civil Disobedience 65
4 Hegemony and Radical Democracy 68
5 Articulation of Meaning and the Constitutive Outsider 70
6 The Universal 71
7 The Political Field 72
8 Conclusions: Ethics and Politics 74
Chapter 5: Outline of a Theory of Violence 78
1 Violence as Constitutive of Society 79
2 Identification and the Libidinal Link with Ideal Self 79
3 Fantasy 80
4 Fantasy and Sexuality 81
5 Elements of a Violent Fantasy 81
Second Part: The Meaning of Anti- Communism in Chile 83
Chapter 6: Historical Fantasies: The Right and Left in Chile 84
1 Background to the Presidential Elections in 1970 86
2 The Socialist Government of the Popular Unity Coalition (UP) 88
3 The Emergence of a New (Violent) Political Articulation 90
4 Historical Fantasies in Chile 92
Chapter 7: Metaphors of Hate 97
1 The Content of the Political Propaganda 97
Chapter 8: The Meaning of Anti-Communism in Chile 109
Conclusions 113
Selected Bibliography 117
Newspapers: 127

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.12.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 133 S.
• Verlagsort: Wiesbaden
• Sprache: deutsch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Cultural Sociology • Latin America • Political culture • Political Science • Psychosocial Studies • Social Theory • Violence
• ISBN-10: 3-531-91737-4 / 3531917374
• ISBN-13: 978-3-531-91737-5 / 9783531917375