By Claudia Leeb
Contesting the Far-Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach (Columbia University Press, New Directions in Critical Theory series, 2024) examines far-right recruitment tactics in the United States and Austria, where people discontented with the status quo have turned to far-right parties and movements that further cement capitalism’s adverse effects. I show that psychoanalytic theory, early Frankfurt School Critical Theory, and feminist and decolonial thought provide analytical tools to explain this apparent contradiction in psychological terms.
