Democracy and the Political Unconscious

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Sociosymbolic Public Sphere

1. The Political Unconscious

2. Modernity’s Traumas

3. Targeting the Public Sphere

4. The Repetition Compulsion or the Endless War on Terror

5. Recovering Community

6. Deliberative Democracy

7. Feminist Theory, Politics, and Freedom

8. Public Knowledge

9. Three Models of Democratic Deliberation

10. The Limits of Deliberation, Democratic Myths, New Frontiers

11. Media and the Public Sphere