Plutocratic Fears and Fantasies: Projective Identification and Enactment in a Market Society
Recently, the fears and violent fantasies of some of the wealthy elite in the United States have become public. In this article, I claim that these fantasies, which emerge from and are linked to neoliberal capitalistic narratives, are signifiers of a systemic and often hidden social reality of class...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
2016
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2016, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-77 |
| RelBib Classification: | KBQ North America NCC Social ethics NCE Business ethics ZB Sociology ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
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B SOCIOCULTURAL factors B ACTING out (Psychology) B PSYCHOSOCIAL factors B Pastoral Theology B Projective identification B Market society B Neoliberalism B Capitalism |
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| Summary: | Recently, the fears and violent fantasies of some of the wealthy elite in the United States have become public. In this article, I claim that these fantasies, which emerge from and are linked to neoliberal capitalistic narratives, are signifiers of a systemic and often hidden social reality of class relations. Moreover, they are social-cultural symptoms of unconscious material, dynamics, and communications taking place between classes. I use the concepts of projective identification and enactment to tease out the psychosocial dynamics and communications of these class-based fantasies and consider briefly the implications of this perspective. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-015-0659-z |