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Haunting sovereignty and the neurotic subject: contemporary constellations of fear, anxiety and uncertainty

ABSTRACT Debates about a politics of fear have endured in Euro-Atlantic societies for many years, and even decades. Recently, they have reached a new peak in the face of right-wing populism. While some scholarship claims that populist politics have especially been successful in instrumentalizing fear, this paper offers a different reading. The author argues that politics of fear and anxiety should be understood as an expression of the erosion of sovereignty, apparent both in the nation-state and in a new mode of subjectivation. It is a ghostly sovereignty that finds both a form and an addressee in the neurotic subject.