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A few good men: psychoanalysis, Abu ghraib and (the) American right
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posted on 2005-08-01, 00:00 authored by Matthew SharpeThis essay proffers a psychoanalytic reading of the events of Abu Ghraib as deeply symptomatic of changes in American foreign policy and political culture. The paper examines the Lacanian understanding of group formation developed by Slavoj Zizek in his work on politics and culture (in Part I), and then applies this understanding to the Abu Ghraib scandal (Part II). In Part III, implications of the analysis are elaborated, in terms of Zizek's contention that the contemporary "permissive society" engenders in subjects the desire for new forms of mastery or "moral clarity".
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Psychoanalysis, culture & societyVolume
10Issue
2Pagination
168 - 185Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan LtdLocation
Basingstoke, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1088-0763eISSN
1543-3390Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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