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

• Autore: Parens Henri <1928->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.6/6
• Soggetto topico: War - Causes; War - Psychological aspects; Aggressiveness - Psychological aspects
• 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>
• Titolo autorizzato: War is not inevitable
• ISBN: 0-7391-9786-X; 0-7391-9529-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807837003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II