Beschreibung:
Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminates how economic and psychological factors interact to produce this extreme political shift.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Castration Anxiety and Capitalism2. Psychoanalytic Concepts3. Sleeping and Dreaming While Awake: Adorno Revisited4. From Melancholia to Mania: The Rise of Trump5. The Culture Industry of Jokes: The Recruitment Tactics of the Alt-Right6. Austria's Far Right: A Failed Working-Through of the Past7. Gratifications of Terror: The Austrian Identitarian MovementConcluding Remarks: Suggestions for Undermining the Far Right TodayNotesBibliographyIndex