Political Theories Of Narcissism

Author : Takamichi Sakurai
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643909770

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Political Theories of Narcissism by Takamichi Sakurai Pdf

Does the psychoanalytic concept of narcissism contribute to enhancing the disciplinary quality and features of political theory? This book tries to portray the foundations of democracy as both a universal value and a system of values embedded in specific cultural systems of meaning from its psychoanalytic perspective. This cross-disciplinary normative attempt makes possible the constructive dialogue between contemporary Western and Japanese culture by focusing on how the psychological foundations of democracy are treated within a common disciplinary framework in two different sociocultural contexts. In light of the integration of the psychiatrically mythical idea, the book argues that the key subjects of political theory are to identify the sources of totalitarian and fascist orientations in seemingly democratic practice, and to deal with them in psychoanalytically diagnostic and remedial terms.

Author : Takamichi Sakurai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Narcissism
ISBN : 364395977X

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POLITICAL THEORIES OF NARCISSISM by Takamichi Sakurai Pdf

Author : Jerrold M. Post
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107008724

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Narcissism and Politics by Jerrold M. Post Pdf

This book analyzes narcissism and politics and systematically explores the psychology of narcissism - the entitlement, the grandiosity and arrogance overlying insecurity, the sensitivity to criticism, and the hunger for acclaim - illustrating different narcissistic personality features through a spectrum of international and national politicians.

Author : Yannis Stavrakakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315524764

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Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory by Yannis Stavrakakis Pdf

The emerging field of psychoanalytic political theory has now reached a stage in its development and rapid evolution that deserves to be registered, systematically defined, and critically evaluated. This handbook provides the first reference volume which showcases the current state of psychoanalytic political theory, maps the genealogy of its development, identifies its conceptual and methodological resources, and highlights its analytical innovations as well as its critical promise. The handbook consists of 35 chapters, offering original, comprehensive, and critical reviews of this field of study. The chapters are divided into five thematic sections: • The figures section discusses the work of major psychoanalytic theorists who have considerably influenced the development of psychoanalytic political theory. • The traditions section genealogically recounts and critically reassesses the many attempts throughout the 20th century of experimenting with the articulation between psychoanalysis and political theory in a consistent way. • The concepts section asks what are the concepts that psychoanalysis offers for appropriation by political theory. • The themes section presents concrete examples of how psychoanalytic political theory can be productively applied in the analysis of racism, gender, nationalism, consumerism, and so on. • The challenges/controversies section captures how psychoanalytic political theory can lead the way towards theoretical and analytical innovation in many disciplinary fields that deal with cutting-edge issues. The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory will serve as a scholarly reference volume for all students and researchers studying political theory, psychoanalysis, and the history of ideas.

Author : Roger L. Simon
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781594038068

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I Know Best by Roger L. Simon Pdf

In 1979, Christopher Lasch published the epochal The Culture of Narcissism warning of the normalizing of narcissism in our society. Lasch may have understated it. 35 years later, in the Obama era—with its parade of endless, often inexplicable, scandals—we have a full blown epidemic of what has recently been called Moral Narcissism. Forget Narcissus and his reflection, Moral Narcissism—the almost schizophrenic divide between intentions and results now pervading our culture—is the new method for feeling good about yourself. It no longer matters how anything turns out as long as your intentions were good, that you were “moral.” And, just as importantly, the only determinant of those intentions, the only one who defines that morality, is you. I Know Best goes beyond Lasch to lay bare how this moral narcissism is behind all those scandals from Obamacare to the Veteran's Administration to the IRS, Benghazi, Bergdahl, Syria and beyond. Everything the Obama administration did and does was about making them feel good about themselves—the results be damned. And they have as their allies those supreme moral narcissists in the academy, media and Hollywood, ever willing to ratify those good intentions and ignore those same results. But I Know Best is not just about the Left. Moral Narcissism affects the right as well, even when they don’t realize it. It is a true epidemic that must be cured in order to save our democratic republic and our futures.

Author : Christopher Lasch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393356922

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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch Pdf

The classic New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction by E.J. Dionne Jr. When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “biblical prophet” (Time). Lasch’s identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was groundbreaking. His diagnosis of American culture is even more relevant today, predicting the limitless expansion of the anxious and grasping narcissistic self into every part of American life. The Culture of Narcissism offers an astute and urgent analysis of what we need to know in these troubled times.

Author : Hans-Jürgen Wirth,Antje Becker,Keri Shewring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Narcissism
ISBN : 3898064808

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Narcissism and Power by Hans-Jürgen Wirth,Antje Becker,Keri Shewring Pdf

Author : John S. Nelson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438414409

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What Should Political Theory Be Now? by John S. Nelson Pdf

Confronted with the alienation of political theory from the practice of politics, prominent theorists respond in this book to the growing question: What should political theory be now? New and original contributions by such thinkers as Charles Anderson, John Gunnell, Terence Ball, Paul Kress, Ira Strauber, and William Connolly analyze the current malaise in the field and offer remedies for it. Each contribution is at once an argument about what is to be done in political theory and an exemplar of how to do it. Spurred by the Shambaugh Conference on Political Theory, this cross-disciplinary effort addresses two major issues: What is the proper stance for theorizing about politics? What are the priority projects for current political theory? The contributions encompass many of the major themes concerning political theorists today, including criticism as a project for current political theory, dangers in the latter-day disengagement of political theory from politics, theorists' perplexity within and about history, issues of reason, and the relationships among science, theory, and politics. The viewpoints presented are diverse, yet the contributors to this volume are typical of political theorists generally. Almost all share inklings of actual or incipient disasters reaching from politics into theory and vice versa.

Author : Charles Zeiders,Peter Devlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000024807

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Malignant Narcissism and Power by Charles Zeiders,Peter Devlin Pdf

Using psychodynamic theory and riveting case material, this book dissects the figure of the malignant narcissist leader (MNL). Across the world today, individuals and societies are impacted by unprecedented disruptive influences, from globalization and climate change to economic uncertainty and mass migration. The rise of populists and would-be saviors has promised certainty for anxious populations, but how far are such leaders suffering from the MNL pathology? Through the psychoanalytic lens of Otto Kernberg, the authors explain the etiology of the charismatic MNL’s clinical features: charisma, grandiosity, criminality, sadism, and paranoia. The book outlines the limitations and complexity of diagnosis, contextualizing the MNL within the transcendental and millenarian movements, and discusses the patho-dynamics of high-pressure groups and totalitarian regimes, including types of groups, methods of mind control, categories of constituents, the corporate totalitarian state, and the authoritarian demagogue. The book looks at a wide range of leaders including Donald Trump, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Roger Ailes, Keith Raniere, Jan of Leiden, and Credonia Mwerinde. Distinguishing the disordered personality of the MNL from other personality disorders, and presenting a new model of overlapping descriptors to categorize high-pressure group types and identifying types of followers as well, this book represents essential reading for psychodynamically minded psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, sociologists, political scientists, and those working in organizational development.

Author : Cary J. Nederman,Guillaume Bogiaris
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800373808

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Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought by Cary J. Nederman,Guillaume Bogiaris Pdf

This insightful Handbook reviews the key frameworks guiding political scientists and historians of political thought. Comprehensive in scope, it covers historical methodology, traditions, epochs, and classic authors and texts, spanning from ancient Greece until the nineteenth century.

Author : Jean Shinoda Bolen,Leonard Cruz ,Steven Buser,Clarissa Pinkola Estés,Nancy Swift Furlotti,James Hollis,Alden Josey ,Thomas Patrick Lavin,Kathryn Madden,Eve Maram,John McClain,Robert Moore,Laurence de Rosen,Susan Rowland,Nathan Schwartz-Salant,Thomas Singer,Richard Smoot,Jacqueline West,James Wyly
Publisher : Chiron Publications
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781630514167

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A Clear and Present Danger by Jean Shinoda Bolen,Leonard Cruz ,Steven Buser,Clarissa Pinkola Estés,Nancy Swift Furlotti,James Hollis,Alden Josey ,Thomas Patrick Lavin,Kathryn Madden,Eve Maram,John McClain,Robert Moore,Laurence de Rosen,Susan Rowland,Nathan Schwartz-Salant,Thomas Singer,Richard Smoot,Jacqueline West,James Wyly Pdf

Author : Barry Sheils,Julie Walsh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319638294

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Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community by Barry Sheils,Julie Walsh Pdf

This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud's most important metapsychological papers: 'On Narcissism: An Introduction' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917 [1915]). These twin papers, conceived in the context of unprecedented social and political turmoil, mark a point in Freud’s metapsychological project wherein the themes of loss and of psychic violence were becoming incontrovertible facts in the story of subject formation. Taking as their concern the difficulty of setting apart the ‘inner’ and the ‘outer’ worlds, as well as the difficulty of preserving an image of the coherently boundaried subject, the psychoanalytic frameworks of narcissism and melancholia provide the background coordinates for the volume’s contributors to analyse contemporary subjectivities in new psychosocial contexts. This collection will be of great interest to all scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies, social and cultural theory, gender and sexuality studies, politics, and psychosocial studies.

Author : Robert Samuels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000457247

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The Psychopathology of Political Ideologies by Robert Samuels Pdf

Inspired by Freud’s The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, this book examines the unconscious processes shaping contemporary political ideologies. Addressing ten fundamental questions, Robert Samuels identifies four basic political ideologies: liberal, conservative, Left, and Right, which are often placed in the structure of a logical square, determined by two binary oppositions, with a fifth structure of centrism complicating the square. He turns to psychoanalysis to explain the unconscious defense mechanisms that structure these political ideologies. Each chapter uses a recent, influential title as a gateway to the analysis of the ideologies and structures identified. Through this analysis, Samuels argues that belief in ideological structures is tied to triumvirates of institutions and ideals; conservatives being tied to premodern institutions of religion, feudalism, and monarchy, while modern liberals are tied to ideals of universality, objectivity, and empiricism. He concludes that this investment in universality shapes the ethics of modern globalization and democratic liberalism. Unlike other books, conclusions are reinforced through examples drawn from current events with an integrated model of different psychopathologies. The Psychopathology of Political Ideologies moves beyond providing an understanding of what drives different political investments, to offer a more rational and conscious comprehension of subjectivity and social organization. This book will be a great resource for those interested in politics, political science psychology, social psychology, globalization, and ideology.

Author : Agnieszka Golec De Zavala
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781003802013

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The Psychology of Collective Narcissism by Agnieszka Golec De Zavala Pdf

The Psychology of Collective Narcissism is a ground-breaking text that presents a new theory of collective narcissism, a belief that exaggerated greatness of one’s own group should be but is not sufficiently appreciated by others. The book presents this concept against the background of social identity theory and research. It explores antecedent as well as social and political consequences of collective narcissism. The author discusses how this burgeoning theory and research can help to elucidate a wide range of psychological dynamics involved in pressing societal issues, such as the declining appeal of democracy, increasing populism, decreasing social solidarity, increasing societal polarization and prejudice, intergroup hostility and political violence, social inequality, and fake news and belief in conspiracy theories. Also referring to societal problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, this highly topical work explores socially shared beliefs as risk factors when predicting responses to crises and highlights conditions in which collective narcissism can be expected. The author also reviews research on interventions reducing the link between collective narcissism, prejudice, and retaliatory intergroup hostility focusing on her recent research on mindfulness. This is a valuable read for academics and students in psychology and the social sciences, those interested in societal processes as well as professionals dealing with the impact of collective narcissism. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Neville Symington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429916472

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Narcissism by Neville Symington Pdf

In this book, Neville Symington approaches the well-trodden subject of narcissism, offers us fresh insights from his long clinical experience with patients suffering from this disorder, and sketches some highlights in the history of the concept of narcissism.