Affect and Emotion
Authors: Yates, C.
Editors: Stavrakakis, Y.
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: New York
ISBN: 9781315524771
DOI: 10.4324/9781315524771
Abstract:Psychoanalytic theory can shed light on the emotions and affects that are rooted in the unconscious processes and that are stirred up in relation to political events. Global socioeconomic crises, together with the mediatization of party politics and its links to a celebrity-oriented promotional culture, have contributed to the emotionalization of contemporary politics. Its affective dynamics can be found in the populist content and style of the 2016 UK Brexit referendum and in the 2016 US presidential campaign. This chapter applies psychoanalytic understandings of affect to examples taken from those campaigns, where the emotive language of love, hate, and desire has been used to court the electorate.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30770/
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Affect and Emotion
Authors: Yates, C.
Editors: Stavrakakis, Y.
Pages: 162-173
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: London
ISBN: 978-1138696310
Abstract:Psychoanalytic theory can shed light on the seemingly irrational feelings or ‘affects’ that are rooted in the unconscious and which are stirred up in relation to political processes and events. Global socio-economic crises together with the mediatisation of party politics and its links to a celebrity-orientated promotional culture, have all contributed to the emotionalisation of contemporary politics. Its affective dynamics can be found in the populist content and style of the recent UK Brexit referendum, or in the 2016 US Presidential campaign. This chapter applies psychoanalytic understandings of affect to examples taken from those campaigns, where the emotive language of love, hate and desire have been used to court the electorate.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30770/
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