Issue #83 Barbarous Hordes, Brutal Elites: The Traumatic Structure of Right-Wing Populism

Barbarous Hordes, Brutal Elites: The Traumatic Structure of Right-Wing Populism

Steffen Krüger

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Issue #83
June 2017










Notes
1

If not otherwise indicated, all translations from German to English are the author’s.

2

Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1916–17), trans. James Strachey (New York: Penguin, 1973), 415.

3

Toril Aalberg and Claes H. de Vreese, “Comprehending Populist Political Communication,” in Populist Political Communication in Europe, eds. Toril Aalberg et al. (New York: Routledge, 2017), 3–11, 7.

4

“Barbarous,” Oxford English Dictionary.

5

“Brutal,” Oxford English Dictionary.

6

Diego Semenere has connected the act of the “gangbang” to the notion of “feasting.” See Diego Semenere, ”The Female Target: Digitality, Psychoanalysis and the Gangbang,” CM: Journal of Communication and Media XI, no. 38 (2016), 179–204, 190.

7

Michael Balint, “Trauma and Object Relationship,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 50 (1969): 429–35, 432.

8

Steffen Krüger, “Virtuelle Gewalt—‘Nein zum Heim’ Facebook-Seiten und die Entstehung politischer Gewalt,” Psychoanalyse—Texte zur Sozialforschung, February 2016, 147–67.

9

Comments on the Facebook page “Nein zum Heim in Guben.”

10

Sigmund Freud, “Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides),” in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XII (1911–1913) (London: Hogarth), 1–82, 62.

11

“Rechte Brandstifter zu jeweils fünf Jahren Haft verurteilt,” Spiegel Online, March 7, 2016 .