Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right After Donald Trump: Conservatism, Liberalism, and Neoliberal Populisms

by Robert Samuels

Book Overview

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 solution, but that global solidarity is blocked by narcissistic nationalism and the capitalist death drive. In examining contemporary social movements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319831402
• ISBN13: 9783319831404
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"