Perversions of Fascism

About the author

Antonios Vadolas is a Lecturer in the MA in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society at Brunel University. He also teaches Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Therapeutic Cultures in Goldsmiths College, University of London. In the last decade he has extensively studied and published in the field of Lacanian theory.

Summary

This book reveals that both fascism and perversion implicate the non-symbolisable kernel in politics, which becomes the source of their mystification. It argues that the fascist does not take the same discursive position as the pervert does, regarding this symbolic gap.

Product details

• Authors: Antonios Vadolas, Vadolas Antonios
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367325916
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32591-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Lacanian psychoanalysis