Psychoanalytic reflections on America after Trump’s re-election: a conversation with Todd McGowan

Abstract This conversation explores the theoretical tools and insights that psychoanalysis and philosophy offer for making sense of the re-election of Trump and global resurgence of right-wing populism. Licensures of obscenity, Trump’s developing relationship with fascism, the function of fantasy in capitalism, Marxist theories of history, and past and potential leftist political responses are discussed.