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This field note is a first attempt to reflect on the choreography of the European crisis from a psychosocial perspective. It focuses on the situation as it has been unfolding in one of the debtor countries of the South, namely Greece. After mapping a variety of metaphors, repertoires and strategies used to energise blame and guilt and thus legitimise the neoliberal policies implemented, it elaborates on the multiple functions of debt, articulating a biopolitical approach with Freudian and Lacanian theorisations of the superego. It also inscribes within this framework the current mutations in political domination.
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Stavrakakis, Y. Dispatches from the Greek lab: Metaphors, strategies and debt in the European crisis. Psychoanal Cult Soc 18, 313–324 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2013.12
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2013.12