There exists a growing distrust in government and institutions, with emotive politics dominating discussions and a public mood of fear and paranoia. This is evident in the language of populist figures, and the rise of populism more generally in Europe and the US. Callum Blades uses Kleinian psychoanalysis as a lens to examine “beneath the surface” of conspiracy theories and the current political mood, emotive ideologies, power idealisation, projection, and denial.
Callum Blades MA, BA (Hons) is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner at Bournemouth University, with a background in psychosocial studies, psychodynamics and psychoanalysis, with application to political culture, conspiracy theories and contemporary society.