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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791494703321

Autore

Naso Ronald C. <1954->

Titolo

Hypocrisy unmasked [[electronic resource] ] : dissociation, shame, and the ethics of inauthenticity / / Ronald C. Naso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Jason Aronson, c2010

ISBN

1-282-71355-8

9786612713552

0-7657-0679-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Collana

New imago : series in theoretical, clinical, and applied psychoanalysis

Disciplina

155.9/2

Soggetti

Hypocrisy

Integrity

Authenticity (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The paradox of hypocrisy -- The call of conscience -- Perversion and moral reckoning -- Compromises of integrity -- Beneath the mask -- Youthful indiscretions -- Dissociation as self-deception -- Multiplicity and moral ambiguity.

Sommario/riassunto

Hypocrisy Unmasked aims more broadly to situate the phenomenon of hypocrisy within a postmodern framework, explaining it as a compromise fashioned by an embodied agent struggling to adapt and flourish amid moral ambiguity and uncertainty. Because morality ultimately is subjective, hypocrisy can no longer be conceptualized as an objective property of behavior or an empirical consequence divorced from the belief systems in which the agent is embedded. For this reason, this book argues that hypocrisy is neither inherently vicious nor virtuous. Instead, it is more usefully regarded as a condition