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
Outlines his hypothesis of the origin of culture in an original
parricide by a band of revolting brothers, who resented the
monopoly of the females by the old man of the tribe, and who
undertook to repress memories of the crime. See the discussion by
Malinowski of this hypothesis in _Sex and Repression in Savage
Society_ (New York, 1927).
----. “Zeitgemässes über Krieg und Tod,” _Imago_, IV (1915-16),
1-21.
----. _Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse_. Leipzig, etc., 1921.
An application of Freud’s theories to the psychology of crowds
and social institutions. See William McDougall, “Professor
Freud’s Group Psychology and His Theory of Suggestion,” chapter
xvii of _Problems of Personality_ (ed. Campbell and others; New
York, 1925).
----. _Unbehagen der Kultur_. Leipzig, etc., 1929.
Jekels, Ludwig. “Der Wendepunkt im Leben Napoleons I,” _Imago_, III
(1914), 313-81.
Kaplan, Leo. “Der tragische Held und der Verbrecher,” _ibid._, IV
(1915), 96-124.
Jones, Ernest. “War and Sublimation.” Read before the British
Association for the Advancement of Science, Section of Physiology,
September 10, 1915; published in _Reports_ of the Association,
LXXXV, 699 ff.
----. (ed.). _The Social Aspects of Psychoanalysis_. London, 1923.
Tausk, Viktor. “Zur Psychologie des Deserteurs,” _Zeitschrift_, IV
(1916-17), 193-204, 228-40.
Blüher, Hans. _Die Rolle der Erotik in der männlichen
Gesellschaft_. 2 vols. Jena, 1917.
Bernfeld, Siegfried. “Die Psychoanalyse in der Jugendbewegung,”
_Imago_, V (1919), 283-89.
----. “Über eine typische Form der männlichen Pubertät,” _ibid._,
IX (1923), 169-188.
Federn, Paul. _Die Vaterlose Gesellschaft_. Leipzig, etc., 1919.
Clark, L. Pierce. “A Psychologic Study of Abraham Lincoln,”
_ibid._, VIII (1921), 1-21.
----. “A Psycho-historical Study of the Epileptic Personality in
the Genius,” _ibid._, IX (1922), 367-401.
----. “The Narcism of Alexander the Great,” _Ibid._, X (1923),
156-69.
----. _Napoleon: Self-Destroyed_. New York, 1929.
Kolnai, Aurel. _Psychoanalyse und Soziologie_. Leipzig, etc., 1920.
Lazell, Edward W. “Psychology of War and Schizophrenia,”
_Psychoanalytic Review_, VII (1920), 224-45.
Rinaldo, Joel. _The Psychoanalysis of the Reformer_. New York, 1921.
White, William A. _Thoughts of a Psychiatrist on the War and
After_. New York, 1919.
Low, Barbara. “Civic Ideals: Some Psycho-analytical
Considerations,” _Sociological Review_, 1922.
Boven, William. “Alexander der Grosse,” _Imago_, VIII (1922),
418-39.
Berger, G. “Zur Theorie der menschlichen Feindseligkeit,” _ibid._,
IX (1923), 344-67.
Lorenz, Emil. _Der politische mythus, Beitrage zur mythologie der
Kultur_. Leipzig, etc., 1923.
Illustrates the state-father relationship from the lore and
literature of many cultures.
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