ABSTRACT Most recent statistics show a considerable increase in violence in the U.S. (and other western countries) raising the question of how to understand this disconcerting development. The author presents her psychoanalytic conception of aggression as an intensification of the preservative and the sexual drives, and shows how political propaganda and demagogy effectively manipulate the cultural climate by speaking to and stirring primitive fears related to these primal drives and their structural modifications. Three false claims are attributed to groups of ostracized “others”: 1) they threaten the individual’s and society’s self-preservation and survival; 2) they pervert the sexual order; and 3) they destroy the social values and morale. The three-pronged assault on the social fabric and reality perception leads to group regressions, thereby enhancing the readiness for aggression and destruction in a supposedly defensive reaction to the drummed up fake danger.

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蛊惑人心的工作原理：对政治动荡时期侵略行为的反思

摘要 最近的统计数据显示，美国（和其他西方国家）的暴力事件显着增加，引发了如何理解这种令人不安的发展的问题。作者将她的侵略精神分析概念表述为防腐剂和性驱力的强化，并展示了政治宣传和煽动如何通过与这些原始驱力及其结构变化相关的原始恐惧说话和煽动来有效地操纵文化氛围。被排斥的“他者”群体提出了三个错误的主张：1) 它们威胁到个人和社会的自我保护和生存；2）他们歪曲了性秩序；3）他们破坏社会价值观和士气。对社会结构和现实感知的三管齐下的攻击导致群体倒退，