“TRAUMATIC MYTHS” IN JEWISH AND ISRAELI NATIONAL/ NATIONALISTIC DISCOURSE
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Abstract
“Political myth”, despite the certain vagueness and ambiguity of the concept, is one of sufficiently popular areas of political research. According to common opinion, among “political myths” a special role is played by the so-called historical myths, national/nationalist myths, and finally traumatic myths, the role of which is poorly researched. So, the relevance of the research is due primarily to the fact that the role of “traumatic myths” in political discourse, and in particular in national/nationalist discourse, is an understudied topic. Although a role of some “traumatic myths” in Jewish and Israeli national/nationalist discourse (for example, the Masada myth and the “Shoah” or “Holocaust”) has been relatively well-studied, in our opinion, most of these researches lack the attachment to general theoretical framework. So, the purpose of the study is to reveal the role of “traumatic myths” in Jewish and Israeli national/nationalistic discourse. The research is based on systemic, interdisciplinary and discursive approaches. Also were applied general scientific methods: induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, comparison and analogy, generalization and abstraction, as well as special scientific methods, including descriptive and problem-chronological methods, methods of deconstruction and reconstruction, etc.
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“historical myth”, “national myth”, “political myth”, “memory politics”, identity, ideology
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