Repeating Hate - Narratives of Loss and Anxiety Among the Hungarian Far Right

This book explores the psychosocial implications of how narratives of hate can affect identities, with a particular focus on Hungary.

List of contents

Repeating Hate: Presenting Anti-Semitic & Anti-Roma Expressions Since 1989.- Performing Identity: Belonging, Exclusion and Violence.- The Familiar Becomes the Foreign(er): Abjection and the Formation of Identity.- A Partnership of Empire: Magyar-Jewish Relations Before the First World War.- Traumas, Revolution and Institutionalising Anti-Semitism: The Treaty of Trianon and anti-Jewish and anti-Roma Policy in the Interwar Period.- The Hungarian Holocaust and its Immediate Aftermath.- Lost Futures: The Affects of the Chosen Trauma on Contemporary Hungarian Politics.- Working Through: Prospects for Collective Mourning and Creating New Histories.-

About the author

Jeffrey Stevenson Murer is Lecturer on Collective Violence and a Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland, and was previously a Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Summary

This book explores the psychosocial implications of how narratives of hate can affect identities, with a particular focus on Hungary.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Stevenson Murer
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2026
• EAN: 9783319493602
• ISBN: 978-3-31-949360-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Illustrations: Approx. 240 p.
• Series: Studies in the Psychosocial; Studies in the Psychosocial
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; B, personality, Social Psychology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Self, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, Self and Identity, Identity (Psychology)