- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Manchester University Press; 1 edition (31 Dec 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719066964
- ISBN-13: 978-0719066962
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.4 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,257,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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He provides some useful insights into the persistance of inter-bloc rivalry amid peace in the province (Jon Tonge, University of Liverpool) --Jon Tonge, University of Liverpool
[This book] is thoughtful and fascinating, and its great strength lies in its combination of empirical work with an original theoretical approach. --Richard English, author of Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA
Miller thus brings a new, socio-psychological perspective to the intercommunal explanations of modern problems in Northern Ireland. This book catalogues this competition through real, imaginary and symbollic relations. --Jon Tonge, University of Liverpool
[This book] is thoughtful and fascinating, and its great strength lies in its combination of empirical work with an original theoretical approach. --Richard English, author of Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA
Miller thus brings a new, socio-psychological perspective to the intercommunal explanations of modern problems in Northern Ireland. This book catalogues this competition through real, imaginary and symbollic relations. --Jon Tonge, University of Liverpool
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Conducting a Lacanian-inspired psychoanalysis of some of the most candid interview materials ever gathered from former IRA members and loyalists, the author demonstrates through a careful examination of their slips of the tongue, jokes, rationalisations and contradictions, that it is the unconscious dynamics of socio-ideological fantasy, i.e. the unconscious pleasure people find in suffering, domination, submission, ignorance, failure and rivalry over jouissance, that lead to the reproduction of antagonism between the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland. In the light of this, he concludes that traditional approaches to conflict resolution which overlook the unconscious are doomed to failure and that a Lacanian psychoanalytic understanding of socio-ideological fantasy has great potential for informing the way we understand and study all inter-religious and ethnic conflicts. Whether you find yourself agreeing with the arguments in this book or not, you are sure to find it a welcome change from both the existing, mainly conservative, analyses of the Northern Ireland conflict and traditional approaches to conflict resolution.
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