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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- ISSN
- 1742-3341
- eISSN
- 1556-9187
- DOI
- 10.1002/aps.96
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Long‐term and recent sociopolitical trends in the USA pull for narcissistic ways of fashioning the self and relating to others. Discourses that sustain a split between capacities for autonomy and capacities for attachment, and discourses that sustain a split between individuals and their social surround elicit omnipotent and/or submissive modes of narcissistic relating. An increasingly vulnerable and socially abandoned population, conditioned to be ashamed of its vulnerabilities and dependency, finds itself subject to discourses that pull for various splits between “us” and “them.” This situation is a breeding ground for a politics of attack, or a politics of hostile withdrawal, or both. Neoconservatism fosters a politics of attack, and liberalism fosters a politics of withdrawal. Drawing on the psychoanalytic concept of “thirdness,” the paper concludes that only discourses and institutions that foster interdependence, containment of vulnerability, and the bringing together of relational and autonomous capacities can counter retaliatory politics. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Journal
International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies – Wiley
Published: Jun 1, 2006