POPULIZM HISTORYCZNY: KONCEPTUALIZACJA RAMY ANALITYCZNEJ
HISTORICAL POPULISM: CONCEPTUALISING AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to building an analytical framework and conceptualising historical populism as a form of shaping messages relating to the historical past. For this purpose, I will combine arguments from research on populism as a form of narrative with research on populist discourse in the politics of memory [Lipiński 2020; Riedel 2022] and the discourse theory of Ernest Laclau [2009; 2010], who combines the post-structuralist perspective with the psychoanalytic theory of social bonds developed by Sigmund Freud [2012]. The conceptualisation carried out will indicate the importance of images of the past in building strong affects that translate into the effective building of collective identities. Constructing populist narratives based on the phantasmal formula of People-in-Nation – as I will show – is one of the forms of resistance to global capitalism, and at the same time is an effect of the form of life that affective capitalism imposes on us.

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