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Psychoanalysis offers an important way of challenging contemporary politics and offering a path toward global solidarity. I have argued that the stress on the neutrality of the analyst and the process of free association help us to think beyond the victim identification of the Right and the obsessional narcissism of the liberal Left.
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Samuels, R. (2016). Conclusion. In: Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump. Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44808-4_6
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