1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910701212403321

Autore

Goïta Modibo

Titolo

Nouvelle menace terroriste en Afrique de l'Ouest [[electronic resource] ] : contrecarrer la stratégie d'AQMI au Sahel / / par Modibo Goïta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : Centre D'Études Stratégiques de L'Afrique, , [2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (8 pages) : color map

Collana

Bulletin de la sécurité Africaine ; ; no. 11

Soggetti

Terrorism - Sahel - Prevention

National security - Sahel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 20, 2011).

"Février 2011."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 8).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807837003321

Autore

Parens Henri <1928->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-9786-X

0-7391-9529-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

303.6/6

Soggetti

War - Causes

War - Psychological aspects

Aggressiveness - Psychological aspects

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

<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>