Ethics of Evil: Psychoanalytic Investigations

ISBN-13: 9780367103910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 304 str.

Naso, Ronald C.

Opis

In today's world where every form of transgression enjoys a psychological motive and rational justification, psychoanalysis stands alone in its ability to uncover the hidden motives that inform individual and social collective behaviour. Both in theory and practice, it bears witness to the impact of anonymity on the potential for perpetration, especially when others are experienced as faceless, disposable objects whose otherness is, at bottom, but a projection, displacement, and denial of our own interiority-in short, the evil within. In keeping with this perspective, Ethics of Evil rejects facile rationalizations of violence; it also rejects the idea that evil, as a concept, is inscrutable or animated by demonic forces. Instead, it evaluates the moral framework in which evil is situated, providing a descriptive understanding of it as a plurality and a depth psychological perspective on the threat it poses for our well-being and ways of life. In so doing, it also fashions and articulates an ethical stance that recognizes the intrinsic link between human freedom and the potential for evil.

Spis treści

Introduction: Moralising evil , How Ought We to Live? , On the brink of extinction , The antinomy of morality in Freud , The psychology of evil , Clinical Applications , The intergenerational transmission of the catastrophic effects of real world history expressed through the analytic subject , For the love of money: dissociation, crime, and the challenges of ethical life , Applied Studies , Past imperfect: historical trauma and its transmission , The lie of the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt's fatal flaw

O autorze

Jon Mills