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Still crazy after all these years: “the paranoid style in American politics”
Author(s) -
Wolfenstein Victor
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of applied psychoanalytic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1556-9187
pISSN - 1742-3341
DOI - 10.1002/aps.95
Subject(s) - politics , state (computer science) , style (visual arts) , panic , psychology , identity (music) , political science , psychoanalysis , social psychology , political economy , criminology , law , sociology , history , aesthetics , philosophy , psychiatry , anxiety , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
In the US, the 9/11 attacks resulted in the instantaneous crystallization of a paranoid group formation, functioning as defense – not against the real dangers of the situation – but rather against an underlying, identity‐shattering state of psychotic panic. This regressed collective emotional state was exploited by the Bush regime to initiate the war in Iraq, a war that plays out internationally the Ur‐Fascistic tendencies that late capitalistic systems have difficulty containing. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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