Hypocrisy unmasked : dissociation, shame, and the ethics of inauthenticity / Ronald C. Naso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naso, Ronald C., 1954-

Series:

New Imago.

New imago : series in theoretical, clinical, and applied psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hypocrisy.

Integrity.

Authenticity (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hypocrisy Unmasked aims more broadly to situate the phenomenon of hypocrisy within a postmodern framework, explaining it as a compromise fashioned by an embodied agent struggling to adapt and flourish amid moral ambiguity and uncertainty. Because morality ultimately is subjective, hypocrisy can no longer be conceptualized as an objective property of behavior or an empirical consequence divorced from the belief systems in which the agent is embedded. For this reason, this book argues that hypocrisy is neither inherently vicious nor virtuous. Instead, it is more usefully regarded as a condition

Contents:

The paradox of hypocrisy

The call of conscience

Perversion and moral reckoning

Compromises of integrity

Beneath the mask

Youthful indiscretions

Dissociation as self-deception

Multiplicity and moral ambiguity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-31058-7

1-282-71355-8

9786612713552

0-7657-0679-2

OCLC:

700699471