The Politics of Destruction: Three Contemporary Configurations of Hallucination: USSR, Polish PiS Party, Islamic State

Contents
1 Psychoanalysis and History: The Unconscious and Reason
	1 The Unconscious and Politics
		1.1 The Construction of the Surreality
		1.2 Negation and Repetition
	2 The Alterities of Reason
		2.1 The Other of Reason and Other Reason
		2.2 The Question of Origin: Repression and Repetition
2 The Matrix of the Totalitarian System: The Hallucinated Soviet Personality
	1 The Other of Reason: The Psychological Core
		1.1 Blessed Alterity
		1.2 Love and Guilt: The Process of Internalizing Surreality
		1.3 The Creation of the Myth
	2 The Decisive Politics of Destruction of the Old-World: Collectivization
		2.1 The Construction of the Configuration of the Enemy
		2.2 Soviet Modernization and Depeasantization
	3 Resistance and Limits of a Deadly Jouissance
3 The Law and Justice Party in Poland: Family Romances, National Romances
	1 The Construction of Images and the Revalorization of the Myth of Polishness
		1.1 Smolensk: Death and Transfiguration
		1.2 The Holy Family
		1.3 The Dead Brother
	2 The Bad and the Good: “Them” and “Us”
		2.1 The Opponents
		2.2 “Us”: Social Policies
	3 Tribal Nationalism: Repetition
		3.1 The Enlarged Tribal Consciousness
		3.2 Antisemitism Today
4 The Personality of the Jihadist Terrorist: Atemporal Spaces of Terror
	1 The “Totalitarian Personality,” Continuity and Rupture
	2 Ego-Ideal and Ideal Ego: From Childhood to Its Return via the Other
	3 Narcissistic Wound and a Return to Origin
		3.1 The Lacking Double Origin
		3.2 Desire and Absence
		3.3 The Word and the Thing
		3.4 Father and Mother
5 The Unconscious and Political Science: A Freudian Reading of Weberian Types of Domination
	1 Tradition
	2 Uncertainty of Time and the Charismatic Personality
	3 Bureaucracy and the Rational-Legal Order
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index