Nationalism

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. New York: Verso, 1991, 5.

"Tom Nairn can nonetheless write that: '"Nationalism" is the pathology of modern developmental history, as inescapable as "neurosis" in the individual, with much the same essential ambiguity attaching to it, a similar built-in capacity for descent into dementia, rooted in the dilemmas of helplessness thrust upon most of the world (the equivalent of infantilism for societies) and largely incurable."" (Quoted from The Break-up of Britain, p. 359)