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
Wallas, Graham, 46
Weber, Max, 39, 52
Weininger, 62
Wertheimer and Hesketh, 81
White, William A., 179 n.
Willoughby, W. W., 2
Winkler, Viktor, 231
Wittals, Fritz, 22
Wordsworth, W., 70
Zilboorg, Gregory, 123
Znaniecki, F., 12
FOOTNOTES
[1] See Harold D. Lasswell, “The Study of the Ill as a Method of
Research on Political Personalities,” _American Political Science
Review_, November, 1929.
[2] “Psychosis” means the more serious mental disturbances; “neurosis”
means the less serious ones.
[3] The best summary of this literature is Wilhelm Lange-Eichbaum,
_Genie-Irrsinn und Ruhm_. See also the works of Ireland, Lombroso,
Möbius, and Gould.
[4] See De Grange’s excellent treatment of this matter in his paper on
the methodology of Comte in the case book to be published by the Social
Science Research Council.
[5] What has been said above is current in the biography of Freud by
Fritz Wittals, and in Freud’s autobiographical sketches.
[6] Modified from “Self-Analysis and Judicial Thinking,” _International
Journal of Ethics_, April, 1930.
[7] The training should, of course, be conducted by a specialist alert
to his responsibilities.
[8] “Politik als Beruf,” in _Gesammelte Schriften_.
[9] I summarized some of this literature in “Types of Political
Personalities,” _Proceedings of the American Sociological Society,
1927_. Reprinted in _Personality and the Group_ (edited by Burgess).
[10] _Personality in Politics._
[11] _The History of European Liberalism._
[12] _Physique and Character_, chap. xiii.
[13] _Quantitative Methods in Politics_, chap. v.
[14] _The Science and Method of Politics._
[15] _The New State._
[16] It is not profitable to pursue these distinctions farther. I
should prefer to distinguish the statesman from the politician by
treating the latter as a function of a democratically organized
community and as one who is limited to persuasion in the advancement of
his conceptions of public right. The statesman may use force, and is
not necessarily a function of democratically organized society.
[17] His viewpoint is best expressed in “Die Typen der Weltanschauung,”
in _Weltanschauung-Philosophie und Religion in Darstellungen_ (edited
by M. Frischeisen-Kohler).
[18] _Soziologie_, chap. iii.
[19] _Grundriss der Sozialökonomik_, III, 1.
[20] See Robert Michels, _Political Parties_; C. E. Merriam, _American
Party System_, and _Introduction_ to H. F. Gosnell’s _Boss Platt and
His New York Machine_; Martin Conway, _Instincts of the Herd in Peace
and War_; Lowell, _Public Opinion in War and Peace_; Rohmer, _Die Vier
Parteien_; A. Christensen, _Politics and Crowd Morality_; W. B. Munro,
_Personality in Politics_.
[21] _Die öffentliche Persönlichkeit._ Beihefte zur _Zeitschrift für
angewandte Psychologie_, Vol. XLIV.
[22] “Innate Factors in Radicalism and Conservatism,” _Journal of
Abnormal and Social Psychology_, XX (1925-26), 234-44.
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