Love the Leader, Hate the State: Narcissistic Protests against Democratic Rule

Authors

  • Barry Richards

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i83.395

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, democracy, ambivalence

Abstract

Following a rapid growth in the number of democracies around the world in the closing decades of the twentieth century, we are now seeing many democratic states faltering or in crisis[1], unable to prevent the break-up of their publics into bitterly opposed groups, and with their legitimacy increasingly questioned. So why is democracy[2] proving so difficult to sustain

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Published

2021-08-23

How to Cite

Richards, B. (2021). Love the Leader, Hate the State: Narcissistic Protests against Democratic Rule. Free Associations, (83), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i83.395

Issue

No. 83 (2021)

Section

Democracy and Ambivalence

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