War is not inevitable : on the psychology of war and aggression / Henri Parens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parens, Henri, 1928- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Causes.

War.

War--Psychological aspects.

Aggressiveness--Psychological aspects.

Aggressiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; London, England : Lexington Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>In this book, author Henri Parens discusses and documents the core psychodynamics that lead groups to war. Detailing some of the psychodynamics that led from World War I to World War II and their respective aftermath, Parens addresses how major factors that gave rise to these wars must, can, and have been counteracted. </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; References; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; I: FREUD'S ANSWER TO EINSTEIN WAS WRONG; 1 The Problem with Freud's Answer to Einstein's "Why War?"; Reflecting on the 1932 Einstein-Freud Correspondence; Notes; 2 Why I Say Freud's Answer Was "Wrong"; How I Came to Doubt the Death-Instinct Basis of Aggression; The Challenge to the then-Current Theory of Aggression; Developing an Alternative Psychoanalytic Theory of Aggression; The Outcome (for this Investigator) of Continuing Longitudinal Observation

Brief Review of Selected Psychoanalysis-Relevant Models of AggressionIs the Death-Instinct-Based Aggression Theory Wrong?; What Is the Comparative Heuristic Value of Each Theory?; Where to From Here?; Notes; II: CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN CONFLICT; 3 Human Narcissism; Comments Following on Freud's Thoughts about Narcissism; Primary Narcissism; The Altriciality of the Human Infant; From Primary Narcissism to Secondary Narcissism; The Investment of Emotional Value (Libido) in Others; Secondary Narcissism; Injury to Narcissism

Narcissism Is a Living Dynamic of a "Group" as It Is of an "Individual"Notes; 4 Pathways from Narcissism to Human Conflict; The Cyclicity of Hyper-Narcissism and Narcissistic Injury in Human Conflict; Narcissism Generates and Narcissism Destroys; The Necessary and Precarious Condition of Narcissism in Humans; Notes; 5 Conflict-Causing Human Reactivities; Homo sapiens Begins Life in Utter Helplessness and Dependence; The Need for Power; Greed; Libidinal Insufficiency Syndrome; Envy; The Need to Blame Others; The Need for Enemies; Revenge; Notes

III: REACTIVITIES, EXPLANATIONS, AND RATIONALIZATIONS6 Psychological Determinants of Prejudice; A Model of Prejudice; From Correlations of Child Rearing and Aggression Profiles to the Study of Prejudice; Normal Developmental Factors that Make Us All Prejudiced; The Large Dilemma Created in the Child by His Ambivalence toward His Parents; The Hostilification of Benign Prejudice; Knowing Key Factors that Lead to Malignant Prejudice Can Inform Strategies toward Its Prevention; There are Ways to Lessen the Generation of Hostile Destructiveness in Humans; Society Can Helpfully Intervene

Large Group Traumas Often become Key Generators of Malignant PrejudiceSome Group Processes that Foster Hostile and Malignant Prejudice; Key Obstacles that Stand in Our Way; Notes; 7 Post-Conflict Human Reactivities; Critical Dynamics of Post-Conflict Reactivities; World War I; World War II; Notes; 8 Explanations and Rationalizations; Chris Hedges's "War . . . Gives Us Meaning"; Franco Fornari's The Psychoanalysis of War; Notes; IV: WHAT WE CAN DO: DIRECTIONS OLD AND NEW; 9 What We Can Do-Part One; Are We Better Off than We Were?; We Create the Conflicts

We are the Only Ones Who Can Solve Them Constructively

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7391-9786-X

0-7391-9529-8

OCLC:

884725881