Contesting far-right identification: Oedipal myth, embodied affects and agonistic choreopolitics

This article offers a groundbreaking psychoanalytic-political framework that retools the Oedipal triad to analyze far-right nationalism. It transforms the classical Oedipal complex—traditionally centered on familial desire and repression—into a political grid for understanding how authority, belonging, and identification are structured within nationalist discourse. Bridging Kristeva’s theory of abjection and Žižek’s notion of ideological fantasy with insights from performance theory, it reveals how political identification is not only imagined but embodied. Through this interdisciplinary approach, the article uncovers how nationalist fantasies are choreographed through bodily affects and symbolic structures, challenging rational models of democratic pluralism and contributing to contemporary debates on agonistic politics.