Demokratie & Öffentlichkeit
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The Pleasure of Transgression as a Mode of the Authoritarian: On the Jouissance of Transgression
The essay explains contemporary authoritarianism as a political pleasure machine, in which offenses and fears are transformed into communal transgression, hatred and proxy omnipotence, beyond rational arguments.
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Psychoanalytic perspectives on the authoritarian turn – The politicized unconscious of late modernism
Why do millions of people follow authoritarian leaders, often against their own interests? This article dives deep into the unconscious driving forces of politics and reveals a hidden “affective grammar” of offense, fear and forbidden lust that challenges our democracies.