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Socio-ideological fantasy and the Northern Ireland conflict : the other side / Adrian Millar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millar, Adrian, author.
- Series:
- New approaches to conflict analysis.
- New approaches to conflict analysis
- New Approaches to Conflict Analysis
- Manchester Security, Conflict & Peace
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Irish--Northern Ireland--Psychology.
- Irish.
- British--Northern Ireland--Psychology.
- British.
- Conflict management--Northern Ireland--Psychological aspects.
- Conflict management.
- Northern Ireland--Social conditions--1969-.
- Northern Ireland.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- Online-ausg.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Conducting a Lacanian-inspired psychoanalysis of some of the most candid interview materials ever gathered from former IRA members and loyalists, the author demonstrates through a careful examination of their slips of the tongue, jokes, rationalisations and contradictions, that it is the unconscious dynamics of socio-ideological fantasy, i.e. the unconscious pleasure people find in suffering, domination, submission, ignorance, failure and rivalry over jouissance, that lead to the reproduction of antagonism between the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland. In the light of this, he concludes that traditional approaches to conflict resolution which overlook the unconscious are doomed to failure and that a Lacanian psychoanalytic understanding of socio-ideological fantasy has great potential for informing the way we understand and study all inter-religious and ethnic conflicts. Whether you find yourself agreeing with the arguments in this book or not, you are sure to find it a welcome change from both the existing, mainly conservative, analyses of the Northern Ireland conflict and traditional approaches to conflict resolution.
- Contents:
- Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; 1 Psychoanalytic theory; 2 Conflict resolution; 3 Explanations of the Northern Ireland conflict; 4 The republican Real; 5 The republican Imaginary; 6 The republican Symbolic; 7 Loyalists; 8 Conclusion; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and e-Publication, viewed on June 6, 2018.
- ISBN:
- 9781847795878
- 1847795870
- 9781781701515
- 1781701512
- 9781847792259
- 1847792251
- OCLC:
- 818847180
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