Abstract: A German newspaper recently reported that Mr Jean-Claude Junker accused Theresa May of being ‘deluded’ and said it was ‘more likely than not’ that Brexit negotiations would fail. Certainly, the neatness and simplicity of the in/out Brexit referendum as the only possible solution for political change in the UK might be a symptom of insanity. In this brief paper, I argue that the adoption of the motivated in/out delusion of Brexit by the UK people is likely to lead to positive epistemic achievements, such as a sense national unity and coherence, rather than the paralysing state of anxiety, stress and depression supposedly caused by mass immigration from Eastern Europe which is essentially imaginary and psychotic but not, for this reason, any less real or vital.
Keywords: Brexit, binary oppositions, binarisation, Britain, Freud, Kierkegaard, Theresa May, Descartes, Dr Liam Fox, disproportionality, psychosis, psychotic, in/out, delusion.
Title: The Brexit Psychopathy
Author: Fred Perez
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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