Abstract

Ethnic and national conflicts and wars among communities today suggest that hatred mainly signifies wars of proximity, dependency and identification. Yet simultaneously one witnesses a misrecognition and denial of that dependency by the sovereign ruler, which produces a delusional sense of power that disavows a necessary and fundamental attachment for existence. In contested relations, dependency becomes a hidden anxiety that must be rejected by all means. The understanding that there is no "hate without love" Chapter four discloses the inevitability (necessity) of dependency and the circumstances of conflict where hatred takes over as a fantasy of power in spaces of necessary and impossible dependency. When proximity and dependency are experienced as infiltration, contamination and danger, hate discourses work to reassure the concealment of anxiety.

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