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The series framework emphasizes theorizing contemporary struggles across gender, race, sexuality, class, and globalization, while the book develops themes of defining politics, relating psychoanalysis to political theory, and examining fear of breakdown as a political force. It further explores deliberative democracy, citizenship formation, mourning, public will and action, radical imaginaries, and nationalism through a concluding focus on working through breakdown.","FEAR OF BREAKDOWN  \nNEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY  \nNEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY  \nAmy Allen, General Editor  \nNew Directions in Critical Theory presents outstanding classic and contemporary texts in the tradition of critical social theory, broadly construed. The series aims to renew and advance the program of critical social theory, with a particular focus on theorizing contemporary struggles around gender, race, sexuality, class, and globalization and their complex interconnections.  \nFor a complete list of books in the series, see pages 293–95.  \nFEAR OF BREAKDOWN  \nPOLITICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS  \nNOËLLE MCAFEE  \nColumbia University Press New York  \nColumbia University Press  \nPublishers Since 1893  \nNew York Chichester, West Sussex  \n[cup.columbia.edu](cup.columbia.edu)  \nCopyright © 2019 Columbia University Press All rights reserved  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: McAfee, Noelle, 1960-author.  \nTitle: Fear of breakdown : politics and psychoanalysis / Noelle McAfee. Description: New York : Columbia University Press, 2019. | Series: New directions in critical theory | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018047977 | ISBN 9780231192682 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231192699 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231549912 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Democracy—Psychological aspects. | Deliberative democracy. | Psychoanalysis—Political aspects. | Political psychology. | Critical theory. Classification: LCC JC423 .M1265 2019 | DDC 320.01—dc23 LC record available at [https://lccn.loc.gov/2018047977](https://lccn.loc.gov/2018047977)  \nColumbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper.  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nCover design: Rebecca Lown  \nTo Guthrie, V, and the future  \n1  \nCONTENTS  \nAcknowledgments ix By Way of a Preface xiii  \nIntroduction 1  \n1. Defining Politics 15  \n2. Psychoanalysis and Political Theory 27  \n3. Politics and the Fear of Breakdown 45  \n4. Practicing Democracy 65  \n5. Democratic Imaginaries 77  \n6. Becoming Citizens 105  \n7. Definitions ofthe Situation 131  \n8. Deliberating Otherwise 151  \n9. Political Works of Mourning 167  \n10. Public Will and Action 189  \n11. Radical Imaginaries 201  \n12. Nationalism and the Fear of Breakdown 213  \nConclusion: Working Through Breakdown 233  \nviii Y Contents  \nNotes 241  \nReferences 259  \nIndex 273  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nT  \nhis book’s genesis dates back nearly a decade, first starting out as a project on democratic practices that I began with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. I  \nthank the Foundation for initial support for the project, along with decades of collaborative explorations on what it takes for democracy to work as it should. Throughout the manuscript, I have drawn tremendously from what I have learned in three decades of association with the Foundation, with David Mathews, John Dedrick, Derek Barker, Harry Boyte, Keith Melville, John Doble, Rich Harwood, David Holwerk, Claire Snyder-Hall, Paula Lynn Ellis, Marietjie Myburg, and the late Hal Saunders, Bob Kingston, and Daniel Yankelovich.  \nPerhaps most pivotal for the book was my immersion in psychoanalytic training as an academic candidate at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute. All my fellow candidates helped me through this intensive process, but especially those who stuck it out to the end of our four years of classes, namely Sara Juul, Andrea Crowell, and Mark Stoholski. From the faculty I learned how much more there was to psychoanalysis than I previously knew. I came to understand better and appreciate more the wisdom of the various schools of psychoanalytic  \nx Y Acknowledgments  \nthought. For this education, I thank especially Robert Paul, Steve Levy, Stephanie Speanburg, Andrew Furman, Patrick Amar, Gail Anderson, Beverly Stoute, Nancy Chase, Jane Yates, Dominique Scarfone, Abbott Bronstein, and Judit Yung. 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