Noëlle McAfee uses psychoanalytic theory to explore the subterranean anxieties behind current crises and the ways in which democratic practices can help work through seemingly intractable political conflicts.Fear of Breakdown contends that politics needs something that only psychoanalysis has been able to offer.
Noëlle McAfee is a professor of philosophy and the director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at Emory University. Her books includeHabermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship (2000),Julia Kristeva (2003), andDemocracy and the Political Unconscious (Columbia, 2008). |
