Socio-ideological fantasy and the Northern Ireland conflict [[electronic resource] ] : the other side / / Adrian Millar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465646903321
• Autore: Millar Adrian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1-78170-151-2; 1-84779-225-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Collana: New approaches to conflict analysis
• Disciplina: 320.01
• Soggetti: Conflict management - Northern Ireland - Psychological aspects; Irish - Northern Ireland - Psychology; British - Northern Ireland - Psychology; Electronic books.; Northern Ireland Social conditions 1969-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; 1 Psychoanalytic theory; 2 Conflict resolution; 3 Explanations of the Northern Ireland conflict; 4 The republican Real; 5 The republican Imaginary; 6 The republican Symbolic; 7 Loyalists; 8 Conclusion; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Conducting a Lacanian-inspired psychoanalysis of some of the most candid interview materials ever gathered from former IRA members and loyalists, the author demonstrates through a careful examination of their slips of the tongue, jokes, rationalisations and contradictions, that it is the unconscious dynamics of socio-ideological fantasy, i.e. the unconscious pleasure people find in suffering, domination, submission, ignorance, failure and rivalry over jouissance, that lead to the reproduction of antagonism between the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland. In the light of thi