The spoils of freedom : psychoanalysis and feminism after the fall of socialism / Renata Salecl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salecl, Renata, 1962-

Series:

Opening out.

Opening out

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--Europe, Eastern--Psychological aspects.

Social movements.

Post-communism--Europe, Eastern--Psychological aspects.

Post-communism.

Psychoanalysis.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

vii, 167 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies is one of the most frightening repercussions of the collapse of socialism. Using psychoanalytic theories of fantasy to investigate why such extremist ideologies have taken hold, Renata Salecl argues that the major social and political changes in post-communist Eastern Europe require a radical re-evaluation of notions of liberal theories of democracy. In doing so she offers a new approach to human rights and feminism grounded in her own active partipation in the struggles, first against communism and now against nationalism and anti-feminism.

Contents:

chapter Introduction

part Part I The fall of socialism.

chapter 1 The fantasy structure of war

The case of Bosnia

chapter 2 The post-socialist moral majority

chapter 3 Normalization in the socialist regime

chapter 4 The struggle for hegemony in the former Yugoslavia

part Part II. and its implications for the theory of ideology

chapter 5 Fantasy as the limit of distributive justice

chapter 6 Legitimizing violence

chapter 7 Crime as a mode of subjectivization

chapter 8 Why is a woman a symptom of rights?.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-162) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-90611-0

1-280-11019-8

0-203-31163-9

1-134-90612-9

0-203-04610-2

9780203046104

OCLC:

795706604