Psychopathology and politicsLasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight)
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Psychopathology and politics
Lasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight)
Personality and politics; Political science; Psychoanalysis; Psychology, Pathological
The current output is reviewed from time to time in relation
to tests by Mark A. May, Gordon W. Allport, and certain other
psychologists who are especially interested in the field. The
_Psychological Index_ can be consulted for the purpose of keeping
abreast of the large quantity of published material.
The most influential recent book is Kretschmer’s _Physique and
Character_. The somatic factors in personality are stated with charm
and brevity by E. Miller, _Types of Mind and Body_. Useful summary and
critical volumes are by William I. Thomas and Dorothy S. Thomas, _The
Child in America_ (New York, 1928), chapters viii-xiii inclusive, and
by R. G. Gordon, _Personality_ (New York, 1926).
The psychoanalytical literature which has undertaken to deal with
politics or politicians explicitly may be appended here:
Pfister, Oskar. “Analytische Untersuchungen über die Psychologie
des Hasses und der Versöhnung,” _Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse_, II
(1910), 134-78.
----. “Die Bedeutung der Psychoanalyse für die Staats- und
Gesellschaftslehre” (Vortrag an VI. Int. Psa. Kong., Hague,
September 8-11, 1920), abstract in _Internationale Zeitschrift_,
VI, 400.
----. “Die menschlichen Einigungsbestrebungen im Lichte der
Psychoanalyse,” _Imago_, XII (1926), 126-35.
The _Imago_ is the psychoanalytical journal which is devoted to
applications of psychoanalytical theory to the interpretation of
culture.
Sachs, Hanns. “Die Bedeutung der Psychoanalyse für Probleme
der Soziologie” (Vortrag), abstract in _Centralblatt für
Psychoanalyse_, II (1911), 464-69.
----. “Ein Traum Bismarcks,” _Internationale Zeitschrift_, I
(1913), 80-83.
Sachs, Hanns, and Rank, Otto. _Die Bedeutung der Psychoanalyse für
die Geisteswissenschaften._ Wiesbaden, 1913.
This was published in the “Grenzfragen des Nerven und
Seelenlebens,” No. 93, a series which contains many volumes
of great interest to social scientists. Kretschmer now is the
responsible editor. The book also appears as No. 23 in the
“Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series.”
Rank, Otto. “Der ‘Familienroman’ in der Psychologie des
Attentäters,” _Der Künstler_ (virte vermehrte Auflage; Leipzig,
etc., 1925), pp. 142-48.
This fragment first appeared in 1911.
Storfer, A. J. “Zur Sonderstellung des Vatermordes.” Leipzig, etc.,
1911.
Parricide and regicide are punished with unusual severity in
different legal systems.
Abraham, Karl. “Amenhotep IV (Echnaton),” _Imago_, I (1912), 334-60.
One of the earliest applications of analytical concepts to a
historical personage.
Freud, Sigmund. _Totem und Taboo_. Leipzig, etc., 1913.
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