The Nation/State Fantasy A Psychoanalytical Genealogy of Nationalism
This book explores the origins of nationalism and the ideal of nation/state congruency since early-modern European thought, their transformation over time and endurance in contemporary political thought and IR theory. The author deploys a Lacanian-psychoa
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The Nation/State Fantasy “Mandelbaum’s book provides a valuable intervention in the re-emerging questions of nationalism and fantasies of state congruency. By deploying a Lacanian psychoanalytic approach the book offers a critical inside into why congruency is a misguided and failed understanding of the society and the state and how it reinforces rather than decimates nationalist ethnic tensions. This work makes important contributions to the understanding of the state and nationalism and to the use of psychoanalytical approaches in the study of international politics.” —Dr. Andreja Zevnik, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Manchester
Moran M. Mandelbaum
The Nation/State Fantasy A Psychoanalytical Genealogy of Nationalism
Moran M. Mandelbaum School of Social, Political and Global Studies Keele University Keele, UK
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Preface and Acknowledgments
This book arises out of a continuous curiosity and a sense of perplexity about nationalism and (global) politics, particularly how nationalism seems to endure and persist, and how its ideal mode of socio-political life, the nation/state, is a recurring motif in the project of modernity. This book is somewhat odd because it analyses the form and power of nationalism not in any specific case, say, of a country’s national identity or its historical process of nation-building. Rather, this bo
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