Self and Society: Narcissism, Collectivism, and the Development of MoralsThe relation between individual and collective processes is central to the social sciences, yet difficult to conceptualize because of the necessity of crossing disciplinary boundaries. The result is that researchers in different disciplines construct their own implicit, and often unsatisfactory, models of either individual or collective phenomena, which in turn influence their theoretical and empirical work. In this 1985 book, Drew Westen attempts to cross these boundaries, proposing an interdisciplinary approach to personality, to culture, and to the relation between the two. Throughout the book, Westen provides reviews of a variety of fields, including personality theory, moral development, ego development, and culture theory. His book will appeal to students and scholars in all the social sciences, as well as to any reader concerned with understanding the relation between individuals and the world in which they live. |
Contents
Personality Theory The Three Faces of Psyche | 3 |
Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents | 4 |
Skinnerian Behaviorism and the Response to Its Stimulus | 9 |
Humanistic and Existential Psychology | 16 |
Theories Past and Present | 18 |
Emotion A Missing Link between Psychodynamic and CognitiveBehavioral Psychology? | 22 |
CounterConditioning Behaviorism to Respond to Emotions | 24 |
Defenses Can Be Reinforced | 30 |
The Development of Collectivism and the Culture Ideal | 241 |
Primary Communitarian Collectivism | 245 |
Secondary Communitarian Collectivism | 255 |
Individuated Collectivism | 266 |
Synthetic Collectivism | 280 |
Personality and Culture A Synthesis | 283 |
Culture and Personality Dying Species or Vigorous Hybrid? | 285 |
The Cultural Configuration Approach | 288 |
Systems Theory and the Integration of Two Relatively Closed Systems | 33 |
Where Drive Was There Shall Affect Be | 49 |
Must We Feel What We Think We Feel? | 64 |
A General Model | 71 |
Stress Coping and Affect | 91 |
Conclusion | 96 |
The Structure and Dynamics of Personality | 97 |
SelfNeeds and OtherNeeds | 98 |
Ego Real and Ego Ideal | 103 |
The Development of Personality Narcissism and Moral Judgment | 128 |
Current Perspectives | 129 |
Internal Narcissism | 154 |
External Narcissism | 162 |
Synthetic Narcissism | 176 |
Conclusion | 180 |
A Theory of Culture | 187 |
Social Theory in Sociology and Anthropology | 189 |
Classical Social Theory and the Sociological Tradition | 191 |
Affinity and Consanguinity in Anthropological Theories | 194 |
Prospects and Retrospects | 210 |
Societal Structure and Dynamics | 216 |
Groupneeds and Memberneeds | 217 |
Culture Real and Culture Ideal | 219 |
The Uses and Abuses of Teleology | 229 |
Class as a Multifaceted Phenomenon | 234 |
The Case of the Starving Cow | 237 |
The Personality Mediation Approach | 289 |
Darwin Meets Oedipus | 293 |
Approaches Past and Present | 296 |
Psychic and Sociocultural Structure and Dynamics | 299 |
Stasis and Change | 306 |
Personality and Communitarian Collectivism | 310 |
The Psychodynamics of Modernization | 330 |
Empirical Psychodynamic and Sociological Approaches | 333 |
Self versus Other | 346 |
The Apostasy of Early Internalizations | 349 |
Conclusion | 352 |
Personality and Sociocultural Change | 355 |
Personality and the Breakdown of Meaning | 356 |
A Javanese Example | 360 |
Breakdown and Recovery Paradigmatic Processes in Personal Identity and Cultural Integration | 367 |
Kuhnian Scientific Revolutions | 368 |
Revitalization Movements | 371 |
The Structure of Religious Experience | 373 |
Identity Crisis and Identity Formation | 375 |
Brainwashing as Forced Identity Resynthesis | 377 |
Rites of Passage as Forced Identity Resynthesis | 380 |
Paradigmatic Processes and the Identity of Two Identities | 382 |
Personality and Individuation | 386 |
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Self and Society: Narcissism, Collectivism, and the Development of Morals Drew Westen No preview available - 2009 |
Self and Society: Narcissism, Collectivism, and the Development of Morals Drew Westen No preview available - 1985 |
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