The Essential Being: Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism

ISBN-13: 9780367327828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 194 str.

Anamilagros Perez Morazzani

Opis

This book explores the concept of "pre-conceptual trauma", drawing in particular on the pioneering research of Wilfred Bion. A comparison is established between two different groups of individuals: five well-known dictators and five famous creative individuals. The authors have defined "pre-conceptual traumas" as ubiquitous experiences that all hum

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- Pre-conceptual traumas as a determinant factor in the individual's personality -- Dictators' early traumas -- Communism as a form of psychopathology -- Capitalism: another form of psychopathology -- The acolytes -- Sycophants and socialist romantics -- The claustrum -- Unconditionality, essentiality, and revengeful hope -- Hitler -- Stalin -- Mao -- Castro -- Hussein -- Beethoven -- Freud -- Einstein -- Gandhi -- Picasso -- General consideration

O autorze

E. Lopez-Corvo, Rafael