The Leader, the Led, and the Psyche: Essays in Psychohistory

ISBN-13: 9781138527010 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 334 str.

Edward Alexander; Bruce Mazlish

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In this book of absorbing stories, Bruce Mazlish illuminates the lives of intellectual and political leaders with the penetrating light of psychohistory and in doing so illuminates our own lives as well

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Acknowledgments
Preface to the Transaction Edition
Introduction: The Science of Psychoanalysis, the Social Sciences, and History
I. The Applicability of Psychoanalysis
1. Darwin, the Bedrock of Psychoanalysis
2. Darwin, the Benchuca, and Genius
3. Freud and Nietzsche
4. The Hysterical Personality and History
5. Autobiography and Psychoanalysis
II. The Intellectual as Leader
6. The Importance of Being Karl Marx, or Henry Thoreau, or Anybody
7. Jevons's Science and His "Second Nature"
8. The Iron Cage of Max Weber
III. The Examination of Political Leadership
9. Prolegomena to Psychohistory
10. The Hidden Khomeini
11. Orwell inside the Whale
IV. The Case of the USA
12. Th e Iron of Melancholy
13. Crevecoeur's New World
14. Leadership in the American Revolution: The Psychological Dimension
15. A Psychohistorical Inquiry: The "Real" Richard Nixon
V. Toward a Group Psychology
16. Leader and Led, Individual and Group
17. The American Psyche
Notes
Name Index
Subject Index
Bibliographical Note

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Edward Alexander