@inbook{84dc407c179844b5a59485f30424e195,
title = "The politics of hysteria - Safouan and the question of power",
abstract = "The chapter “The politics of hysteria—Safouan and the question of power” investigates Safouan{\textquoteright}s writing on the political through the prism of hysteria. The article traces Safouan{\textquoteright}s recourse to Freud{\textquoteright}s concept of parricide, the Oedipal myth and the law, as well as to Luther{\textquoteright}s protestant reformation in order to develop a critical understanding of the function of language in autocratic societies and of pathways to democratisation.",
author = "Christiane Weller",
year = "2026",
doi = "10.4324/9781003712480-11",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781041196068",
series = "Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "51--60",
editor = "Williams, \{Megan \}",
booktitle = "Lacanian Psychoanalytic Writings",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1st",
}