Enactments: American Modes and Psychohistorical ModelsEnactments introduces readers to the field of psychohistory, examines the continuous interplay of psychoanalytic process with the irrational forces that shape history, and systematizes a highly diverse field into six usable models. |
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... First of all , the Void came into being , next broad - bosomed Earth , the solid and eternal home of all , and Eros , the most beautiful of the immortal gods , " begins a famous account in the Western tradition . 1 Then , by a series of ...
... First of all , the Void came into being , next broad - bosomed Earth , the solid and eternal home of all , and Eros , the most beautiful of the immortal gods , " begins a famous account in the Western tradition . 1 Then , by a series of ...
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... first and foremost a theory of history . " 12 But if psychoanalytic praxis was constrained by a specificity of tech- nique ( e.g. , the basic rule of uttering whatever enters the mind , attended by interpretation , insight ...
... first and foremost a theory of history . " 12 But if psychoanalytic praxis was constrained by a specificity of tech- nique ( e.g. , the basic rule of uttering whatever enters the mind , attended by interpretation , insight ...
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... first year may be seen as a gesture to the sort of sacrificial politics he would other- wise eschew ) . Along with the above scenarios , political parties in Western democra- cies also magnetize dangers inherent in psychic structure ...
... first year may be seen as a gesture to the sort of sacrificial politics he would other- wise eschew ) . Along with the above scenarios , political parties in Western democra- cies also magnetize dangers inherent in psychic structure ...
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... frail little old lady being helped across the street by Boy Scout James Baker . ( See Appendix B ) On the eve of the first debate , an op - ed column in the New York Times ran under this header : " Death At Bush's Door 28 ENACTMENTS.
... frail little old lady being helped across the street by Boy Scout James Baker . ( See Appendix B ) On the eve of the first debate , an op - ed column in the New York Times ran under this header : " Death At Bush's Door 28 ENACTMENTS.
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... first sacrificing many thousand American and Asian lives.76 Staking his political rise and leverage on surrogate victims ( communists , welfare cheats , war protestors ) , Nixon was pressed by the Watergate scandals to sacrifice his own ...
... first sacrificing many thousand American and Asian lives.76 Staking his political rise and leverage on surrogate victims ( communists , welfare cheats , war protestors ) , Nixon was pressed by the Watergate scandals to sacrifice his own ...
Contents
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Themd to Death The Politics of Projective Identification and Clintons Reparative Presidency | 87 |
Watergate Figures of Speech Systems of Morality Types of Tragedy | 104 |
Enactments Hearings Trials Conferences | 131 |
Testimony of Silence The ThomasHill Hearings | 133 |
Two Turns at Au Bar The Palm Beach Rape Trial | 144 |
Foucaults Preemption of Freuds Sexual Discourse and a Return to the Repressed | 213 |
American Fantasy Mt Shasta and the Other Shasta | 223 |
A Crux in the FreudJung Letters | 231 |
GroupFantasy in the Media | 239 |
Utopia Out of Dystopia Patriarchy as Radical Feminisms PoisonContainer | 241 |
Hitler Holocaust Feedback System | 254 |
Relatively Whole Sense of Relating and Experiencing Oneself as Affected by Drives Defenses Parenting Modes | 255 |
GroupFantasy During the Early Phases of the Clinton Administration | 257 |
Enactments InBy Psychoanalysis | 149 |
Parenting Modes and Childhood Traumas | 165 |
Abandonment A Dominant Pattern in the Development of Creative Writers and Thinkers from the Seventeenth Century to the Present | 167 |
Whos Afraid of Who Killed Virginia Woolf? | 202 |
The RepressionProduction of Sexuality and Aggression | 211 |
Notes | 267 |
Glossary of Key Terms | 333 |
Bibliography | 338 |
Index | 353 |
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Page 108 - When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all.
Page 26 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 26 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad. But when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander. What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds! Frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate, The unit)- and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
Page 179 - Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, inviron'd with the deepest darkness, and utterly depriv'd of the use of every member and faculty.
Page 230 - ... religious" crush. Though it does not really bother me, I still feel it is disgusting and ridiculous because of its undeniable erotic undertone. This abominable feeling comes from the fact that as a boy I was the victim of a sexual assault by a man I once worshipped.
Page 99 - Nothing that is admittedly and unmistakably horrible matters very much, because it frightens people into seeking a remedy: the serious horrors are those which seem entirely respectable and normal to respectable and normal men. Now the formula of tragedy had come down to the nineteenth century from days in which this was not recognized, and when life was so thoroughly accepted as a divine institution that in order to make it seem tragic, something dreadful had to happen and somebody had to die. But...
Page 26 - Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick! How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place?
Page 32 - Leadership over human beings is exercised when persons with certain motives and purposes mobilize, in competition or conflict with others, institutional, political, psychological, and other resources so as to arouse, engage, and satisfy the motives of followers.
Page 228 - I was at last obliged to recognize that these scenes of seduction had never taken place, and that they were only fantasies which my patients had made up or which I myself had perhaps forced upon them, I was for some time completely at a loss.
Page 92 - The ideal of care is thus an activity of relationship, of seeing and responding to need, taking care of the world by sustaining the web of connection so that no one is left alone.