Repeating Hate: Narratives of Loss and Anxiety Among the Hungarian Far Right: Studies in the Psychosocial

Repeating Hate: Presenting Anti-Semitic & Anti-Roma Expressions Since 1989.- Performing Identity: Belonging, Exclusion and Violence.- The Familiar Becomes the Foreign(er): Abjection and the Formation of Identity.- A Partnership of Empire: Magyar-Jewish Relations Before the First World War.- Traumas, Revolution and Institutionalising Anti-Semitism: The Treaty of Trianon and anti-Jewish and anti-Roma Policy in the Interwar Period.- The Hungarian Holocaust and its Immediate Aftermath.- Lost Futures: The Affects of the Chosen Trauma on Contemporary Hungarian Politics.- Working Through: Prospects for Collective Mourning and Creating New Histories.-

Jeffrey Stevenson Murer is Lecturer on Collective Violence and a Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland, and was previously a Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Explores the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Roma violence in Hungary following the collapse of Communism in 1989 through a psychosocial perspective Argues that current violence reaches back into past disquiet that has not been resolved Provides a deep understanding of extremist violence, adding to our understanding of future upsurges that are not yet visible