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
[34] See Ferenczi, _Versuch einer Genitaltheorie_ (Internationale
Psychoanalytische Bibliothek, 1924), Band XV, esp. Sec. V. Also Wilhelm
Reich, _Die Funktion des Orgasmus_.
[35] See Freud’s discussion of paranoia in his “Psychoanalytische
Bemerkungen über einen autobiographisch beschriebenen Fall von
Paranoia,” _Gesammelte Schriften_, Band VIII.
[36] This grandfather committed suicide at an unreported age, and his
youngest son is said to be “very nervous.” B’s oldest sister had a
nervous breakdown in high school. The third sister is “neurotic.” B is
described as having been a frail infant, and a shy child. Bed-wetting
continued until he was twelve or fourteen, and he occasionally had
attacks of indigestion. Physical examination failed to disclose any
significant physical factor in his difficulties.
[37] Examples are given in Kempf’s _Psychopathology_, and in other
textbooks on the subject.
[38] See Helene Deutsch, _Psychoanalyse der weiblichen Sexualfunction_.
[39] See “The Dynamics of Schizophrenic Reactions Related to Pregnancy
and Childbirth,” _American Journal of Psychiatry_, VIII (1929), 733-66.
[40] The physician in charge of this case comments that there may be a
homosexual _anlage_ on the physical level, but that this is not certain.
[41] Harry Stack Sullivan has stressed the critical importance for
personality growth of the adolescent phase in which the individual is
impelled to enter into intimate emotional relations with one or two
other persons of his own age. Those who partially fail in this show
various warps in their subsequent development.
[42] “Der neurotische Charakter,” _Internationale Zeitschrift für
Psychoanalyse_, XIV (1928), 26-44.
[43] Abraham and Ferenczi have reported cases of this kind.
[44] _Op. cit._, p. 448.
[45] See the chapter on “Psycho-analysis in Relation to Politics” in
_Social Aspects of Psycho-Analysis_ (London, 1924).
[46] “Dogma und Zwangsidee,” _Imago_, XIII (1927), 247-382.
[47] Succinctly described in “Über eine typische Form der männlichen
pubertät,” _Imago_, IX (1923), 169 ff. On the homoerotic elements
see Hans Blüher, _Die deutsche Wandervogelbewegung als erotisches
Phänomen_, and his more elaborate volume cited in the Bibliography.
[48] I was kindly permitted to see this manuscript which is not yet
published.
[49] See Sandor Rado, “Die psychischen Wirkungen der Rauschgifte,”
_Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse_, XII (1926), 540-56; A.
Keilholz, “Analyseversuch bei Delirium Tremens,” _ibid._, pp. 478-92;
and Stekel’s volumes.
[50] For a sketch of the unconscious processes involved in warfare see
S. Freud, “Zeitgemässes über Krieg und Tod,” _Imago_, IV (1915-16),
1-21; Ernest Jones, _Essays in Psycho-Analysis_; William A. White,
_Thoughts of a Psychiatrist on the War and After_.
[51] _Chicago Daily News_, July 20, 1927.
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