Palacios Fantasy and Political Violence

The Meaning of Anticommunism in Chile
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-531-91737-5
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, 133 Seiten, eBook

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.

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Palacios, Margarita

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Foreword;6
2;Preface;8
3;Contents;9
4;Introduction;11
4.1;1 The Interpretations;13
4.2;2 A Divided Society: Thirty-three Years later;14
4.3;3 Theory of Violence;17
4.4;4 The Use of Psychoanalytical Theory;18
4.5;5 Methodology;21
4.6;6 Organization of the Book;22
5;First Part: Understanding Political Violence;25
6;Chapter 1: Otherness in Social Theory;26
6.1;1 The ‘Deviant’ Other;27
6.2;2 The Other as Ideology;28
6.3;3 Symbolic Interactionism: The Community of the Self and the Other;30
6.4;4 Post-Structuralism and the Other as Power;31
6.5;5 Concluding Remarks: Desire as the Other?;33
7;Chapter 2: On Sacredness and Transgression: Understanding Social Antagonism;35
7.1;1 The Sacred and the Profane;36
7.2;2 Emergence of Social Antagonism;38
7.3;3 Language and the Structure of Desire;41
7.4;4 Fantasy;43
7.5;5 Discussion and Conclusions;44
8;Chapter 3: Sexuality and Violence: Towards Feminine Ethics;47
8.1;1 The Key Nature of Sexuality;47
8.2;2 A Masculine Society: The Oedipus Complex and Morality;49
8.3;3 Feminine Passivity versus Male Activity;51
8.4;4 On Sexed Subjects: Fundamental Male and Female Fantasies;53
8.5;5 Sexed Enjoyment and Exclusion;54
8.6;6 On Asceticism, Mysticism and Dualism;55
8.7;7 Concluding Remarks: Towards Feminine Ethics;57
9;Chapter 4: Democracy and Violence;59
9.1;1 Discourse Rationality;62
9.2;2 Discourse Ethics;64
9.3;3 Civil Disobedience;65
9.4;4 Hegemony and Radical Democracy;68
9.5;5 Articulation of Meaning and the Constitutive Outsider;70
9.6;6 The Universal;71
9.7;7 The Political Field;72
9.8;8 Conclusions: Ethics and Politics;74
10;Chapter 5: Outline of a Theory of Violence;78
10.1;1 Violence as Constitutive of Society;79
10.2;2 Identification and the Libidinal Link with Ideal Self;79
10.3;3 Fantasy;80
10.4;4 Fantasy and Sexuality;81
10.5;5 Elements of a Violent Fantasy;81
11;Second Part: The Meaning of Anti- Communism in Chile;83
12;Chapter 6: Historical Fantasies: The Right and Left in Chile;84
12.1;1 Background to the Presidential Elections in 1970;86
12.2;2 The Socialist Government of the Popular Unity Coalition (UP);88
12.3;3 The Emergence of a New (Violent) Political Articulation;90
12.4;4 Historical Fantasies in Chile;92
13;Chapter 7: Metaphors of Hate;97
13.1;1 The Content of the Political Propaganda;97
14;Chapter 8: The Meaning of Anti-Communism in Chile;109
15;Conclusions;113
16;Selected Bibliography;117
16.1;Newspapers:;127

Understanding Political Violence.- Otherness in Social Theory.- On Sacredness and Transgression: Understanding Social Antagonism.- Sexuality and Violence: Towards Feminine Ethics.- Democracy and Violence.- Outline of a Theory of Violence.- The Meaning of Anti-Communism in Chile.- Historical Fantasies: The Right and Left in Chile.- Metaphors of Hate.- The Meaning of Anti-Communism in Chile.

Über Autor(innen)

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.