DOI 10.37240/wb.2025.5.11
wunderBlock. Psychoanaliza i Filozofia, nr 5 / 2025
Strony: 150-158
Abstract: Drawing inspiration from a recent book by the political philosopher Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti (Twenty Years of Rage), the author analyzes the origins of today’s populist wave, both on the left and the right. He sees it as a consequence of the failed liberal-democratic “promise,” since ordinary people – those left behind – feel they no longer matter in modern society. Hence, a deep resentment has grown toward the political elites, and above all toward that segment of the population the author calls the “running ahead”: the culturally advanced classes who inhabit the great cosmopolitan metropolises. In short, populism is not a revolt driven by economic hardship, but rather a “struggle for recognition” in the Hegelian sense. This frustration over a lack of recognition is leading to the decline of democracy and the looming prospect of a demagogic autocracy.
Keywords Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, rage, populism, struggle for recognition, autocracy
About the author: Sergio Benvenuto – is an Italian psychoanalyst, writer, and philosopher. He is a retired researcher of the Italian Academia of Sciences (CNR). He is president of the Institute Elvio Fachinelli in Italy. He was the founder and editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is a member of the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Discourse and of American Imago. He has authored many books in different languages, and has worked on Freud, Lacan, the philosophy of science, political theory, and monotheisms (with J.-L. Nancy).
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