Neoliberalismus und Rechtspopulismus - eine heimliche Liaison? Psychoanalytische Überlegungen wie der (angebliche) Tod der Utopie zum autoritären Denken führt.

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Nowadays, we are confronted authoritarian and anti-feminist backlash focusing on the de-politization of subjectivity – a concept that has been essential also in the context of an on-going feminist struggle for recognition. But why are we facing this kind of success of right wing populism which is at the same time a frontal attack on democracy? In answering this question, the meaning of the unconsciousness will be outlined as concept for analysing ideology. I will argue that repressive ideological interpellations are successful in depolitizing subjectivtity if they are based on a phantasma of recognition making the suffering caused by asymmetrical power-structures invisible. The negation of suffering also involves the destruction the possibility of emancipation as the latter intrinsically depends on the reflection on the causes of suffering. To negate the suffering also implies to negate concrete-utopian thinking, and to some extend this also causes contemporary crises of feminism. But crises also bear a change for radically rethinking the political. Therefore, it will be argued that feminism should be rethought on the base of concrete utopias and while doing so it can also play a vital role in re-politizing neoliberal democracy.

Period	20 Oct 2017
Event title	Momentum 17 Vielfalt - Kongress Hallstatt
Event type	Conference
Location	AustriaShow on map