Abstrakt
In times of ontological insecurity, identities face pressures of reformulation and doubts over their legitimacy. The following paper addresses the complex issue of Hungarian identity construction processes.
The research is based on a discursive study of three annual addresses (2015-2017) of the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. By utilizing the intellectual heritage of symbolic interactionism and linking it to the current post-structuralist research, I aim to prove the interconnection of foreign policy and the discursive constructions of concepts as self and other.
Studying the prime minister's annual addresses to the nation, I identify the basic elements of both concepts. Further, following the assumptions of David Campbell, I aim to describe those threats to the identity that legitimizes its existence.