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The Psychoanalysis of Racism,
Revolution and Nationalism
is available as an eBook. The format, design and text are identical to the paperback and hardbound editions
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“This is a bold and provocative treatise. The nation is seen as the embodiment of a communal ego, cleansed of the ‘badness’ introduced by a particular class of people within a nation’s boundaries whose ‘removal’ by whatever means is rationalized if goodness is to be restored. The interpretations are intriguing and illuminating, the scholarship creative and careful. ”—Dan B. Thomas, Professor of Political Science in the journal Political Psychology
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Nationalism relocates one's body into a body politic. Mark Neocleous: "Because territory is imagined in corporeal terms, the state seeks to secure its borders—its orifices and entry points—from infiltration and penetration."
Like human bodies, nations are imagined possessing boundaries delineating self from not self--defending against entities seeking to penetrate and contaminate the body politic.
Immigrants may be conceived or experienced as invaders—creeping through porous boundaries—threatening to destroy a vulnerable self. National policy from 2016 to 2020--grew out of this psychosomatic fantasy.
"External" reality becomes the place--location--in which a collective phantasy is experienced or enacted. National life became a collective dream. Americans are living now within this nightmare, which we call "reality."
While Americans have been suffering from the phantasy of human beings as pathogenic human beings penetrating into the body politic, at the same time there has been a real pathogenic organisms penetrating into, invading and causing illness within the body politic,
A perfect storm. Struggle against a real infection and a symbolic infection.
Richard Koenigsberg
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