The essential being : psychoanalytic understanding of totalitarianism / Anamilagros Perez-Morazzani and Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez Morazzani, Anamilagros, author.

López Corvo, Rafael E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Totalitarianism--Psychological aspects.

Totalitarianism.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 170 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2017.

Summary:

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: give well-known dictators (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, and Hussein) and five famous creative individuals (Beethoven, Freud, Einstein, Gandhi, and Picasso). The authors define '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 'traumatised' (conflictive or pathological) and the 'non-traumatised' (developmental or normal). Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-164) and index.

ISBN:

9781782205005

1782205004

OCLC:

953984333