Original Article

Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (2009) 14, 171–182. doi:10.1057/pcs.2008.41

Ideology, psyche and the historical significance of 9/11

Nancy Caro Hollandera

aLos Angeles Institute and Society of Psychoanalytic Studies, 3338 Cabrillo Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90066, USA. E-mail: nchollander@ca.rr.com

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Abstract

This paper develops a perspective on ideology that stresses the complex relationship between the asymmetrical relations of power, unconscious dynamics and the creation of political subjectivity. This model serves as an analytic tool to situate the complex meanings of 9/11 within the crisis of corporate capitalism characteristic of the recent history of the United States.

Keywords:

hegemony, discourse of the Other, oppositional ideology, violent innocence, neoliberalism, neoconservatism

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