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Političko nesvjesno u Hrvatskoj: prolegomena jednoj eksploraciji
Political Unconscious In Croatia: A Prolegomenon To Exploration

Author(s): Nebojša Blanuša
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu & Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: unconscious; Political unconscious; conspiracy theories; Croatia; eu; ideologeme of the “return of Yugoslavia”.

Summary/Abstract: After preliminary exploration of validity of the psychoanalytical concept of the unconscious for the analysis of political field, we apply the concept of the Political unconscious for the analysis of the last three decades of Croatian history. In this task we primarily lean on conspiratorial thinking of Croatian and other political elites and media, on ideologemes they had produced and the modes of production which have been included in such ideological constructs. they are consecutively analyzed at three consecutive levels: political history, societal order and general history. In the political antagonism between independence and integration, the most prominent conspiratorial mapping constitutes the ideologeme of the “return of Yugoslavia”. It is also a negative part of the larger ideological space of political attitudes created by the political project of the “return to europe” from the beginning of nineties, which is coming to its final realization through accession to the EU. nevertheless, due to the economic crisis in the euand the regional perception of structural homologies of Yugoslavia and the eu, it is possible that the old ideologeme will continue to haunt the Croatian political reality.

  • Issue Year: 1/2011
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 29-57
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Croatian