psychopolitics
psychopolitics noun: the interaction between human psychology and politics.
Noun
psychopolitics (uncountable)
- The interaction between human psychology and politics.
- As O'Meara has shown, the NP would become viewed through the prism of ideology and cod psycho-politics.2001, Hein Marais, South Africa: Limits to Change, page 16
- Psychopolitics is a condition shaped by the human relations school of management, in which social relations take precendence over customers and clients and where process becomes king at the expense of productivity.2002, Gerald H Gaynor, Innovation by Design, page 65
Examples of psychopolitics in a sentence
- By psychopolitics, Sykes means the synthesis of Freudian and neo-Marxian views.2009, Mark Jarmuth, The Psychology of American Fascism, page 139:
- Politics too has been transformed in the era of psychopolitics.2017 December 30, Stuart Jeffries, “Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han – review”, in The...
Origin of psychopolitics
From psycho- + politics.
Questions about psychopolitics
- What does psychopolitics mean?
- Psychopolitics means the interaction between human psychology and politics.
- How do you use psychopolitics in a sentence?
- By psychopolitics, Sykes means the synthesis of Freudian and neo-Marxian views.
- What part of speech is psychopolitics?
- Psychopolitics is a noun.
Words near psychopolitics in the dictionary
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