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The Politics of Destruction

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81942-2

ISBN: 978-3-030-81941-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 4, 2021

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Chapter 1Psychoanalysis and History: The Unconscious and Reason

Bafoil, François

Pages: 1 –21

[This chapter examines three configurations of hallucination through their similarities and differences. Similarities relate to the psychoanalytical approach—with the notion of the unconscious at its core—of repetition and destruction, through which I examine the processes of construction of a...
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Chapter 2The Matrix of the Totalitarian System: The Hallucinated Soviet Personality

Bafoil, François

Pages: 23 –51

[By analyzing the “totalitarian personality” my main objective is to highlight the fundamental psychological dimension represented by the construction of “surreality” used as the sole collective reference and its internalization by Soviet citizens. The term “surreality” refers here to collective...
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Chapter 3The Law and Justice Party in Poland: Family Romances, National Romances

Bafoil, François

Pages: 53 –83

[The Polish example represents what might be called the “soft” version of totalitarianism and differs radically from the two other personalities in several respects: the non-usage of the extreme barbaric violence specific to the USSR and the Islamic State; its resolve to be fully admitted as a...
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Chapter 4The Personality of the Jihadist Terrorist: Atemporal Spaces of Terror

Bafoil, François

Pages: 85 –108

[This chapter is dedicated to the last extreme totalitarian personality examined in this book: the Islamist terrorist. I focus on his psychological dimensions, while also bearing in mind the material benefits linked to terrorist action. The objective here is to explain the barbaric violence that...
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Chapter 5The Unconscious and Political Science: A Freudian Reading of Weberian Types of Domination

Bafoil, François

Pages: 109 –125

[The last chapter considers the three Weberian categories of political domination (traditional, charismatic, and rational-legal) and compares them with the Freudian concepts of temporality, negation, recombination, displacement, and repetition in order to understand how the political regimes are...
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Chapter 6Conclusion

Bafoil, François

Pages: 127 –130

[The conclusion states that whatever the differences between the regimes analyzed in this book, each of them intends to shape a future which is a return to the origin. This origin is perceived to have been corrupt by the previous historical players and felt like a loss which needs to be filled by...

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