LEADER 04547nam 22007215 450 001 9910865240803321 005 20250808093215.0 010 $a9783031612275$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031612268 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-61227-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31360943 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31360943 035 $a(CKB)32213523200041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-61227-5 035 $a(OCoLC)1438668908 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932213523200041 100 $a20240601d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCulture Wars, Universities, and the Political Unconscious /$fby Robert Samuels 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (0 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Samuels, Robert Culture Wars, Universities, and the Political Unconscious Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031612268 327 $a1 Culture Wars and the Political Unconscious -- 2 The Centrist History of the Culture Wars -- 3 Allan Bloom and the Origins of the Contemporary Culture War -- 4 A Well-Funded Political Conspiracy -- 5 Cancel Culture, Free Speech, and the Center-Right -- 6 Ben Shapiro, Higher Education, and the New Cold War McCarthyism -- 7 Ted Cruz, Paranoia, and the Cultural Marxism Conspiracy -- 8 Walter Benn Michaels and the Leftist Case Against Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion -- 9 Left-Wing Educational Racism and Anti-Racism -- 10 Antisemitism, Free Speech, and the Political Unconscious -- 11 Beyond the Culture Wars: Universities, Democracy, and Psychoanalysis. 330 $aThis book argues that whenever we are talking about cancel culture, identity politics, political correctness, antisemitism, conspiracy theories, or the alt-Right, we are dealing with a culture war, which often pits two sides against each other in a split world of good and evil. These political representations rely on a set of unconscious processes best understand through psychoanalysis. As this book argues, if you want to comprehend the rhetoric of the Right, the Left, conservatives, and centrists, it is necessary to see how these ideologies rely on unacknowledged defense mechanisms, fantasies, fears, and desires. In fact, if we do not employ psychoanalytic concepts to examine our political investments, we will be unable to get to the root causes driving these social productions. Each chapter of this book looks at a specific writer?s or politician?s take on contemporary culture wars. One of the reoccurring themes concerns the way free speech has been weaponized by different ideological formations, and this battle over free expression is often centered on the role that universities play in balancing the demands among competing social interests. This book will not only clarify what universities should be, but it will also help us to move beyond our polarized political world. Robert Samuels is a Senior Continuing Lecturer at UC Santa Barbra, USA. He holds doctorates in Psychology and English, and he is the author of twenty books, including Viral Rhetoric, The Psychopathology of Political Ideology, and Freud for the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave, 2021). 606 $aPsychoanalysis 606 $aCritical psychology 606 $aEthnopsychology 606 $aPersonality 606 $aDifference (Psychology) 606 $aSocial psychology 606 $aCultural policy 606 $aPsychoanalysis 606 $aCritical Psychology 606 $aCross-Cultural Psychology 606 $aPersonality and Differential Psychology 606 $aCultural Psychology 606 $aCultural Policy and Politics 615 0$aPsychoanalysis. 615 0$aCritical psychology. 615 0$aEthnopsychology. 615 0$aPersonality. 615 0$aDifference (Psychology) 615 0$aSocial psychology. 615 0$aCultural policy. 615 14$aPsychoanalysis. 615 24$aCritical Psychology. 615 24$aCross-Cultural Psychology. 615 24$aPersonality and Differential Psychology. 615 24$aCultural Psychology. 615 24$aCultural Policy and Politics. 676 $a150.195 700 $aSamuels$b Robert$0614320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910865240803321 996 $aCulture Wars, Universities, and the Political Unconscious$94169406 997 $aUNINA