The hysteria that characterizes these commotions [Tea Party rallies against President Obama] convinces me that the current American political scene, so heavy with anxiety and unhappy conscience at the moment, is riper now for psychoanalytic inquiry as an efficacious human science than it has ever been…

—Hortense Spillers, “Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08″boundary 2 39:2 (2012), p. 9.