Fealty and Fury: A Psychobiography of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - Paperback

by Cemal Dindar (Author), Zeynep Erk Emeksiz (Translator), Alvin Parmar (Translator)

Fealty and Fury analyzes the story of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan within the sociocultural context where he was supported by, and inhibited from, certain experiences, their projection in the psychoanalytic domain, and the consequences that occurred through his adventure. A closer look at the Analyzes Analyzes psychology of leadership where individual & social psychology intersect, it provides a unified theoretical framework to understand the dynamics that shape Erdoğan's political identity, focusing on fragments of his family history and his psychological development. This also consists of the psychocultural dynamics specific to Anatolia, analyzing the political & social transformations in Turkey from the last period of Ottoman to our age and the right wing.

This psychobiography of Erdoğan, who has governed Turkey for 19 years, provides insights to understanding the typology of leadership in right-wing politics which has become highly opular in the world today. This is more than a personal story. Though the case seems to be restricted to Turkish politics & conditions specific to Turkey, we can interpret it as a global symptom which gives us an idea of how the new era will be in world politics. Fealty and Fury discusses what this symptom symbolizes as the return of the repressed.