psychopolitics

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English

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ politics.

Noun

psychopolitics (uncountable)

  1. The interaction between human psychology and politics.
    • 2001, Hein Marais, South Africa: Limits to Change, page 16:
      As O'Meara has shown, the NP would become viewed through the prism of ideology and cod psycho-politics.
    • 2002, Gerald H Gaynor, Innovation by Design, page 65:
      Psychopolitics is a condition shaped by the human relations school of management, in which social relations take precendence over customers and clients and where process becomes king at the expense of productivity.
    • 2009, Mark Jarmuth, The Psychology of American Fascism, page 139:
      By psychopolitics, Sykes means the synthesis of Freudian and neo-Marxian views.
    • 2017 December 30, Stuart Jeffries, “Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han – review”, in The Guardian‎:
      Politics too has been transformed in the era of psychopolitics. We’re incapable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens.

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