The Feeling of Certainty : Psychosocial Perspectives on Identity and Difference / edited by Nikolay Mintchev, R. D. Hinshelwood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mintchev, Nikolay.., Editor.

Hinshelwood, R. D.., Editor.

Series:

Studies in the Psychosocial, 2662-2637

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality.

Difference (Psychology).

Philosophy of mind.

Self.

Political sociology.

Race.

Personality and Differential Psychology.

Philosophy of the Self.

Political Sociology.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Local Subjects:

Personality and Differential Psychology.

Philosophy of the Self.

Political Sociology.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 194 p.)

Edition:

1版. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This book explores the concept of certainty, a term which is widely used in everyday language to designate a psychological experience or feeling but is rarely considered controversial or politically charged. The Feeling of Certainty argues that conversely this most ordinary of feelings plays a key role in shaping identity formation, social exclusion, prejudice, and commitment to political causes. The authors question what it means for the subject to feel certainty about her or his relationships to self and others. From where does the feeling of certainty originate, and how does it differ from modes of thought that are open to scepticism about the order of things? They draw on a wide range of theories, including those of Freud, Klein, Lacan, Wittgenstein, Bion, and Jung, challenging readers to consider the world of ideologies, symbols, and stereotypes in which certainty is entrenched, as well as the inter- and intra-psychic processes and defence mechanisms which form the unconscious foundation of the experience of certainty. This collection will offer valuable insight to scholars of psychology, politics, social science and history.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Feeling of Certainty, Towards a Psychosocial Approach

2. The Mentality of Conviction: Feeling Certain and the Search for Truth

3. What is Subjectivity and How Can We Study it Empirically? Understanding The Feeling of Certainty through Psychoanalysis and Ethnography

4. Haunted by Uncertain Refrains

5. Internal Racism: Belief in the Racist Mindset

6. Being Racist: The Certainty of a Pathological Organisation of the Personality

7. Numinosity and Terror: Jung's Psychological Revision of Otto as an Aid to Engaging Religious Fundamentalism

8. "Instead of Trying to Help You, They Try To Screw You": The Feeling of Certainty and the Mexican-origin Border Patrol Agents

9. Gender Certainty as a Defence: Oedipal Conflict in Wartime Sexual Violence

10. The Primitive Container of Fascism: Masculine Anxieties and Defences in Times of Trauma and Uncertainty.- 11. Collective Identities, Breivik and the National Container.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9783319577173

3319577174