Democracy and the Unconscious

IF 1 4区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Polity Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI:10.1086/727908

Ali Aslam, David McIvor, Joel Schlosser

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Abstract

This essay examines the relationship between democracy and the unconscious. It does so by understanding democracy through the repressed desire for shared power by a collective actor that has episodically realized itself, in ways that haunt political languages, practices, and aspirations. Democratic flourishing rests upon erotic practices through which the demos transgressively transforms politics by embracing what we refer to as democratic narcissism. Democratic decline and impasse are symptomatic of repressed desires for power that have required the people’s abjection rather than coalescing into a self-affirming narcissism of the demos.

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民主与无意识

这篇文章探讨了民主与无意识之间的关系。它这样做是通过理解民主，通过一个集体行动者的压抑的分享权力的愿望，这种愿望断断续续地实现了自己，以困扰政治语言、实践和愿望的方式。民主的繁荣依赖于性爱实践，通过这种实践，民众通过拥抱我们所说的民主自恋，越轨地改变了政治。民主的衰落和僵局是对权力的渴望被压抑的症状，这种渴望需要人民的卑躬屈膝，而不是凝聚成民众自我肯定的自恋。

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Polity POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.60

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