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The Paternal Imago in Ruins

Messianic Leadership and Constitutional Instability in Ecuador

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This book offers a Lacanian interpretation of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism to explore the enigma of constitutional instability in Ecuador—a country that has sanctioned twenty constitutions since independence. Drawing on historical archives and psychoanalytic theory, Ernesto Espindola argues that existing literature underestimates the affective investments of political elites in constitutional ‘abolition-replacement events’, often led by charismatic or authoritarian figures.
Through a Lacanian discourse analysis of Ecuador’s 1869 and 2007–2008 Constituent Assemblies, and the 2015 reform abolishing presidential term limits, the book examines the ideological grip of messianic leadership and its relation to heroic identification, the paternal imago, and the fantasy of national redemption. Espindola shows how constitutional instability in Ecuador is not merely a legal or institutional phenomenon, but one deeply entwined with unconscious desires, symbolic attachments, and the repetition of political trauma.
Engaging with Lacan, Freud, and the Essex School of Discourse Analysis, this book offers a novel framework for understanding the psycho-political dynamics of constitutional change in postcolonial contexts. It will appeal to scholars in political theory, psychoanalysis, Latin American studies, and cultural studies.
Pages
165 pages
Collection
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Parution
2026-01-10
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783032075062
EAN PDF
9783032075079
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1
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16
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5908 Ko
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147,69 €
EAN EPUB
9783032075079
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
16
Taille du fichier
389 Ko
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147,69 €

Ernesto Espindola holds a PhD in Government from the University of Essex, UK, and teaches political science at Johnson County Community College and Florida International University, USA. His research explores the intersection of political theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and ideology in postcolonial contexts. He has studied and published internationally in English and Spanish.

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