How psychoanalysis can help us make sense of Brexit

The explicit and frequent use of xenophobic rhetoric in public discussions may need deeper understanding, found in psychoanalytic ideas, writes David Morgan. Such ideas explain how politicians manipulate groups of people by priming them with certain fears, and show that immigration threatens us where it hurts: in the unconscious fear that there is not enough to go round.

This article is reproduced courtesy of the London School of Economics Business Review.

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