ABSTRACT

The rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies is one of the most frightening repercussions of the collapse of socialism. Using psychoanalytic theories of fantasy to investigate why such extremist ideologies have taken hold, Renata Salecl argues that the major social and political changes in post-communist Eastern Europe require a radical re-evaluation of notions of liberal theories of democracy. In doing so she offers a new approach to human rights and feminism grounded in her own active partipation in the struggles, first against communism and now against nationalism and anti-feminism.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I The fall of socialism . . .

chapter 1|9 pages

The fantasy structure of war

The case of Bosnia

chapter 2|18 pages

The post-socialist moral majority

part |2 pages

Part II . . . and its implications for the theory of ideology

chapter 6|9 pages

Legitimizing violence

chapter 7|13 pages

Crime as a mode of subjectivization

chapter 8|22 pages

Why is a woman a symptom of rights?