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The conspiracy narrative “The Big Lie”—Psychoanalytical considerations on the development of susceptibility to an “alternative reality”
International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 , DOI: 10.1002/aps.1845
Karin Johanna Zienert‐Eilts 1, 2
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Using the narrative “The Big Lie,” which is placed in the socio-political context, and based on data gathered from social media, clinical material, interviews and documentaries, the author examines from a psychoanalytic perspective the effective power and dynamics of conspiracy narratives that create an “alternative reality” with “conviction capsules,” using lies and distortions of reality consciously employed as means of agitation on the breeding ground of unconscious relational and regression processes. To sketch the emergence and development of this willingness, the author combines the explanations of Wilfred Bion, Susan Isaacs and Herbert Rosenfeld and develops the hypothesis, including the concept of “perverted containing,” that due to unsuccessful containing processes in the earliest relationship experiences, defensively inflexible, sealed “conviction capsules” develop, permeated by fears of confusion and annihilation, by hatred as well as phantasies of powerlessness and superiority. Underlying these, experienced as existentially threatening, are panic about change and excessive identification with a hard, alleged omnipotent object, linked to an unconscious longing for symbiosis with a “savior”—a conglomerate that breeds susceptibility to conspiracy narratives and totalitarian, destructive populist leaders. As one example, the destructive-symbiotic relationship dynamic between Donald Trump and his supporters is outlined with the escalation of violence.

中文翻译:

阴谋叙事“弥天大谎”——对“另类现实”敏感性发展的心理分析思考

作者利用社会政治背景下的叙事“弥天大谎”,基于从社交媒体、临床材料、访谈和纪录片中收集的数据,从精神分析的角度审视了阴谋叙事的有效力量和动力。他们用“信念胶囊”创造了一种“另类现实”,有意识地利用谎言和对现实的扭曲作为煽动手段,在无意识的关系和回归过程的滋生地上煽动。为了勾画这种意愿的出现和发展,作者结合了威尔弗雷德·比昂、苏珊·艾萨克斯和赫伯特·罗森菲尔德的解释,并提出了一个假设包括“变态包容”的概念,即由于最早的关系经历中不成功的包容过程,防御性僵化、密封的“信念胶囊”逐渐形成,充满了对混乱和毁灭的恐惧、仇恨以及对无能为力和优越感的幻想。在这些被体验为存在威胁的背后,是对变化的恐慌以及对一个坚硬的、所谓全能的物体的过度认同,这与无意识地渴望与“救世主”共生有关,“救世主”是一个滋生对阴谋叙事和极权主义、破坏性民粹主义领导人的敏感性的集团。 。举个例子,唐纳德·特朗普及其支持者之间的破坏性共生关系动态随着暴力的升级而被勾勒出来。
更新日期:2023-11-08
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