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Cover; The Macabresque; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I The Macabresque Of Human Violation; Introduction: Taking Performativity Seriously; 1. From Collective Violence To Human Violation: Dark Desires In Disorders Of Will; Part Ii On The Normality Of Perpetrators: How We Know Them, How They Know Themselves; 2. Perpetrators Alone And Together: Analytical Perspectives, Methodological Critiques; 3. One Mind, Heart, And Spirit: Reductionist Traps In Psychosocial Theory; 4. The Modalities Of Desire In Mimetic Rivalry: Sin, Sign, And Symbol 5. Human Development And The Political Subject: The Lacanian Scaffolding In Psychosocial Perspectives6. Perversity In The Performative: Sadism And Shame In The Macabresque; Part Iii Cultural Contexts: Case Studies Of Performativity In The Macabresque; 7. The Lurid And Ludic In The Chinese Cultural Revolution: Oral Disciplines And Oedipal Aggression In Mao's Re-education Camps; 8. Cultural Case Studies In The Macabresque: Variations Of Human Violation In The Twentieth Century; The Desert March Of Young Turk Predatory Horror; Stalin's Ideological Purgatory; Hitler's Diabolical Laboratory The Hell Of Blood Trauma In The Days Of Hutu Powerthe Confessional Archive And The Facial Aesthetics Of Ângkar's Torture; The Junta's Neo-inquisitional Operating Theaters; The Bosnian Shame Camps; Part Iv Politics Of The Unreal; 9. On The Slippery Tropes Of We-ness: Reality And The Unreal In Social Fantasy And Political Ideology; 10. The Quest For The Never-is: Legitimacy-grounding As Enemy-making; Notes; Bibliography; Index Edward Weisband. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.