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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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
2016
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Pastoral psychology
Jahr: 2016, Band: 65, Heft: 1, Seiten: 61-77 |
RelBib Classification: | KBQ Nordamerika NCC Sozialethik NCE Wirtschaftsethik ZB Soziologie ZD Psychologie |
weitere Schlagwörter: | 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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Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-015-0659-z |