The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Ideology after the Fall of Socialism

by Salecl,Renata

• ISBN13: 9780415073578
• ISBN10: 041507357X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-08-16
• Publisher: Routledge

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 participation in these struggles, first against communism and now against nationalism and anti-feminism.

Table of Contents

Series preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
The fall of socialism ...
The fantasy structure of war: the case of Bosnia	p. 11
The post-socialist moral majority	p. 20
'Normalization' in the socialist regime	p. 38
The struggle for hegemony in the former Yugoslavia	p. 58
... and its implications for the theory of ideology
Fantasy as the limit of distributive justice	p. 77
Legitimizing violence	p. 90
Crime as a mode of subjectivization	p. 99
Why is a woman a symptom of rights?	p. 112
Conclusion	p. 134
Notes	p. 142
Select bibliography	p. 157
Index	p. 163
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