UNLOCKED: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)
Know Your Enemy
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Why Are People Voting Against Theirself Interest?
Liberal commentariat often frames problems of political understanding as like a moral task of ampathy, or is a task of description. A lot of those things that seem to be people acting against their own self interest, either misunderstand what those people see as their self interest, or neglect to understand the ways in which what's at stake is part of theirselves. We instead deal with libidnal economy, right? Which is the fancy word for... collective and shared resources of fear, of fantasy, of desire, of shame, of yearning, of images and stories that circulate in cultural space.
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