By Andrew Samuels
ISBN-10: 0203359593
ISBN-13: 9780203359594
ISBN-10: 0203376358
ISBN-13: 9780203376355
ISBN-10: 0415081025
ISBN-13: 9780415081023
A thorough and unique examine, The Political Psyche joins jointly intensity psychology with politics in a fashion that absolutely displays the discoveries made in research and treatment. Andrew Samuels brings an acute mental point of view to political matters reminiscent of the distribution of wealth, the marketplace economic system, 3rd international improvement, environmentalism and nationalism--expanding and embellishing our perception of ``the political.'' although, preserving precise to his goal of constructing a two-way discussion among intensity psychology and politics, Samuels additionally lays naked the hidden politics of the daddy, the male physique, and men's concerns generally.
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We need to introduce the irrational into our discourse on politics: Measures of exaggeration, grotesquerie, vulgarity and broad comedy, making a social critique out of these just as the unconscious itself sometimes manages to. For example, the wild and compelling imagery of aggressive fantasy eventually promotes concern for other people. The hidden social telos of aggressive fantasy, the covert function it serves, the thing that it is secretly for, is the fostering of an emergence of concern. Without my base and sordid aggressive fantasies in the direction of another, there would be less need for concern about him or her on my part.
For maintaining an attitude of evaluation and judgment enables us to see to what extent the preceding ideas about attitudes to and images of the market are relevant outside Western, capitalistic culture. It sometimes seems that the Zeitgeist in what was the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe is quite different from that of the West. In the West, criticisms of the excesses of free market economics are beginning to surface in circles that had, hitherto, been gung ho for the market. 18 In the East (and in many parts of the Third World), things seem to be going the other way.
Beneath and within the fractured surface of contemporary Western culture lies a protoreligious culture (and this is also shown clearly by events in Eastern Europe and in the emergence of liberation theology in Latin America). We can see the culture’s attempts to resacralize itself in its extreme openness to numinous experience—not always along decorous lines, and including the ritually pagan: Sexual experimentation, rock music, sports, food, fashion, money, collectible things. Maybe the best way to find the sacred today would be to submit and surrender to the apparently pagan.
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