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The Essential Being
Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism
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- English
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eBook - ePub
The Essential Being
Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism
About this book
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: five well-known dictators and five famous creative individuals. The authors have defined "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 "traumatized" (conflictive or pathological), and the "non-traumatized (developmental or normal).
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Yes, you can access The Essential Being by Anamilagros Perez Morazzani,Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Mental Health in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About The Authors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One Pre-conceptual traumas as a determinant factor in the individual's personality
- Chapter Two Dictators' early traumas
- Chapter Three Communism as a form of psychopathology
- Chapter Four Capitalism: another form of psychopathology
- Chapter Five The acolytes
- Chapter Six Sycophants and socialist romantics
- Chapter Seven The claustrum
- Chapter Eight Unconditionality, essentiality, and revengeful hope
- Chapter Nine Hitler
- Chapter Ten Stalin
- Chapter Eleven Mao
- Chapter Twelve Castro
- Chapter Thirteen Hussein
- Chapter Fourteen Beethoven
- Chapter Fifteen Freud
- Chapter Sixteen Einstein
- Chapter Seventeen Gandhi
- Chapter Eighteen Picasso
- Chapter Nineteen General consideration
- Notes
- References
- Index