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DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party AKP (Justice and Development=0D=0A  Party) have been in power since 2002 in Türkiye. Erdogan now controls=0D=0A  the judiciary and the media. There is massive disinformation. There=0D=0A  are widespread human rights violations, and corruption. There has been=0D=0A  a progressive erosion of secularism and democracy. Elections have many=0D=0A  times been declared unfair by international organisations.=0D=0A=0D=0AConcepts such as populism, right-wing populism, neoliberal=0D=0A  authoritarianism, neo patrimonialism, competitive authoritarianism,=0D=0A  permanent state of emergency, neoliberal authoritarianism are used to=0D=0A  describe governments like Erdogan?s.=0D=0A=0D=0AI believe that psychoanalytic theory provides valuable insights into=0D=0A  the Erdogan phenomenon. Erdogan promotes a split view of the world=0D=0A  like culturally alienated small elite vs uncorrupted real people; the=0D=0A  representatives of the established order; homebred vs foreign-bred;=0D=0A  patriots vs non-patriots; enemies vs friends; the pious vs the sinner.=0D=0A  This paranoid-schizoid world view has two main functions.=0D=0A=0D=0AOne function is that it simplifies the world and this simplification=0D=0A  although fills the world with threatening enemies relieves people from=0D=0A  the confusion they experience towards the world. Its other function is=0D=0A  that it helps people positively regulate their self-esteem in two=0D=0A  ways. First one is that it validates their primitive way of thinking,=0D=0A  and the second is that it idealises their way of living, and beliefs.=0D=0A=0D=0AErdogan pictures himself as a very strong leader. People identify=0D=0A  with this image and feel stronger and more secure in the world. It?s=0D=0A  interesting that Erdogan also pictures himself as a victim. These two=0D=0A  images seem to contradict each other but the image of the victim=0D=0A  facilitates people?s identification with Erdogan because it matches=0D=0A  with their devalued parts of their selves and eases their shame about=0D=0A  them. It even turns shame into pride.=0D=0A=0D=0AIn my presentation I also would like to talk about how it is like for=0D=0A  apsychiatrist/psychoanalyticly oriented therapist live in such an environment.=0D=0A=0D=0A =0D=0A
SUMMARY:May 4 2024 Timur Oguz The Match Made in Heaven:  A Psychoanalytic Analysis of the Erdogan Regime
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