Foreword | 6 |
Preface | 8 |
Contents | 9 |
Introduction | 11 |
1 The Interpretations | 13 |
2 A Divided Society: Thirty-three Years later | 14 |
3 Theory of Violence | 17 |
4 The Use of Psychoanalytical Theory | 18 |
5 Methodology | 21 |
6 Organization of the Book | 22 |
First Part: Understanding Political Violence | 25 |
Chapter 1: Otherness in Social Theory | 26 |
1 The ‘Deviant’ Other | 27 |
2 The Other as Ideology | 28 |
3 Symbolic Interactionism: The Community of the Self and the Other | 30 |
4 Post-Structuralism and the Other as Power | 31 |
5 Concluding Remarks: Desire as the Other? | 33 |
Chapter 2: On Sacredness and Transgression: Understanding Social Antagonism | 35 |
1 The Sacred and the Profane | 36 |
2 Emergence of Social Antagonism | 38 |
3 Language and the Structure of Desire | 41 |
4 Fantasy | 43 |
5 Discussion and Conclusions | 44 |
Chapter 3: Sexuality and Violence: Towards Feminine Ethics | 47 |
1 The Key Nature of Sexuality | 47 |
2 A Masculine Society: The Oedipus Complex and Morality | 49 |
3 Feminine Passivity versus Male Activity | 51 |
4 On Sexed Subjects: Fundamental Male and Female Fantasies | 53 |
5 Sexed Enjoyment and Exclusion | 54 |
6 On Asceticism, Mysticism and Dualism | 55 |
7 Concluding Remarks: Towards Feminine Ethics | 57 |
Chapter 4: Democracy and Violence | 59 |
1 Discourse Rationality | 62 |
2 Discourse Ethics | 64 |
3 Civil Disobedience | 65 |
4 Hegemony and Radical Democracy | 68 |
5 Articulation of Meaning and the Constitutive Outsider | 70 |
6 The Universal | 71 |
7 The Political Field | 72 |
8 Conclusions: Ethics and Politics | 74 |
Chapter 5: Outline of a Theory of Violence | 78 |
1 Violence as Constitutive of Society | 79 |
2 Identification and the Libidinal Link with Ideal Self | 79 |
3 Fantasy | 80 |
4 Fantasy and Sexuality | 81 |
5 Elements of a Violent Fantasy | 81 |
Second Part: The Meaning of Anti- Communism in Chile | 83 |
Chapter 6: Historical Fantasies: The Right and Left in Chile | 84 |
1 Background to the Presidential Elections in 1970 | 86 |
2 The Socialist Government of the Popular Unity Coalition (UP) | 88 |
3 The Emergence of a New (Violent) Political Articulation | 90 |
4 Historical Fantasies in Chile | 92 |
Chapter 7: Metaphors of Hate | 97 |
1 The Content of the Political Propaganda | 97 |
Chapter 8: The Meaning of Anti-Communism in Chile | 109 |
Conclusions | 113 |
Selected Bibliography | 117 |
Newspapers: | 127 |