Cultural Foundations of Political PsychologyRoutledge, 6 лют. 2018 р. - 312 стор. Over the centuries all of the great philosophers made psychology central to understanding social life. Indeed, the ancient Greeks thought it impossible to conceive of political life without insight into the human soul. Yet insuffficient professional legitimization attaches to the central importance of modern depth psychology in understanding politics. Cultural Foundations of Political Psychology explores the linkages between psychology and politics, focusing on how rival conceptions of the good life and unspoken moral purposes in the social sciences have led to sectarian intolerance. Roazen has always approached the history of psychoanalysis with the conviction that ethical issues are implicit in every clinical encounter. Thus, his opening chapter on Erich Fromm's exclusion from the International Psychoanalytic Association touches on a host of political matters, including collaboration as opposed to resistance to Nazi tyranny. Roazen also brings a public/private perspective to such well-known episodes as the Hiss/Chambers case, the circumstances of Virginia Woolf's madness and suicide, and the matter of CIA funding of the monthly Encounter. He deals with the reaction to psychoanalysis on the part of three major philosophers--Althusser, Wittgenstein, and Buber--and looks at the link between psychology and politics in the work of such political theorists as Machiavelli, Rousseau, Burke, Tocqueville, Berlin, and Arendt. A chapter grappling with Vietnam and the Cold War illustrates how political psychology should be concerned with questions of an ethical or "ought" character. In examining the social and psychological bases for political theorizing, Roazen shows how both psychology and politics must change and redefine their methodologies as a result of their interaction. Roazen concludes with a chapter on how political psychology must deal with issues posed by changing conceptions of femininity. This volume is a pioneering exploration of the intersection of psychology and politics. |
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... early on getting a good general education . Berlin still stands out as someone singularly unimpressed by Freud , as Strauss was too ; I remember Strauss not being able even to see similarities between Nietzsche and Freud on the subject ...
... early analysts , including those who had known Freud personally , handed me material that was compelling in a way that I was un- able to dodge . I had always looked on Freud , whose Civilization and Its Discontents had been assigned ...
... early 1950s, really got their start with the coming to power of the Nazis in Germany in early 1933. It is essential to start out by providing the full specifics of Fromm's official standing as an analyst in Germany. On June 18, 1927 ...
... early 1930s were once almost unknown , but a book of his like Escape From Freedom became for years a central text in the educa- tion of social scientists . Works of Fromm's like Man For Himself , Psycho- analysis and Religion , The ...
... early 1960s , Fromm justifiably felt somehow left out of the whole story . ( Freud's own most speculative works might appeal to political philosophers , but not to most practicing social scientists . ) Fromm could not understand how ...
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33 | |
Notes on Leonard and Virginia Woolf | 45 |
Tragedy in America | 61 |
The Old Encounter | 71 |
Three Philosophers Analyze Freud Wittgenstein Althusser and Ruber | 85 |
Theorists | 97 |
Vietnam and the Cold War | 125 |
Methodology | 149 |
Hannah Arendt | 181 |
Geoffrey Gorer | 205 |
Biography | 215 |
Affairs of State | 239 |
The Psychology of Women | 257 |
Index | 273 |
On Intellectuals and Exile | 139 |