”…you will disavow me three times” - an outline of Political Psychology

Abstract

The outline of political psychology shows how the disavowal of societal power constitutes a decisive part of maintaining existing power relations in a bottom up process.Such disavowal happens »in the face of power«; »enforced« by power that is present in all societal circumstances: it is visible in its consequences, represented in its facilitators which is the political elite and the media which considers itself to be part of this elite.Given this, disavowal is at the same time subjugation by power (and its demands and impositions), affirmation of power, fosters the conservation of (the discourse of) power. It is the decisive mechanism of reproduction of power in a bottom up process.This disavowal intervenes on the level of the discourse of power. That’s why Parrhesia’s disobeying of the rules of the discourse of power entails a danger to power.