The Essential Being: Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism

ISBN-13: 9781782205005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 194 str.

Anamilagros Perez-Morazzani; Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo

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 human beings go through during the first years of their lives, when a temporary absence changes into a permanent presence, determining the outcome of what any individual might do or perform in the future. Pre-conceptual traumas split the mind into two dialectical and correlated states: the -traumatized- (conflictive or pathological), and the -non-traumatized- (developmental or normal).

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