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Masochism in Political Behavior: A Lacanian Perspective

Posted by Filip Kovacevic on January 29, 2013 at 4:30am

Below is a link to an article I published in the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies in 2011.

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The aim of this paper is to offer an explanation of masochism in political behavior using the concepts developed by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. For the purposes of this paper, masochism in political behavior is defined as any political behavior in which the protagonists willingly pursue self-directed pain and suffering in order to accomplish their political goals.

Where Politics, Psyche, and Community Converge: An Interview with Andrew Samuels

Posted by Depth Alliance on September 11, 2017 at 6:20pm

U.K.-based psychotherapist and activist, Andrew Samuels has a long history as a consultant to political clients on the presidential and prime ministerial level. While Samuels first published Politics on the Couch in 2001 and The Political Psyche in 2015, his newest book, A New Therapy for Politics? delves ever more deeply into the intersection between psychotherapy and politics and lends a critical eye to his own chosen profession in an effort to bring the two together.

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