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“Mandelbaum’s book provides a valuable intervention in the re-emerging questions of nationalism and fantasies of state congruency. By deploying a Lacanian psychoanalytic approach the book offers a critical inside into why congruency is a misguided and failed understanding of the society and the state and how it reinforces rather than decimates nationalist ethnic tensions. This work makes important contributions to the understanding of the state and nationalism and to the use of psychoanalytical approaches in the study of international politics.”