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
This gives a formal range of sixty-four types of character formation
without allowing for subtle variations in quantity. The first
combination which Apfelbach specifies is, symbolically, ABCDEF. This is
a very masculine, sadistic, hyperemotional, moral, intellectually keen,
and upright character. Among men this is the type of the organizers,
politicians, the great preachers, generals, dictators, and the like.
Among women, this is the type of the organizer of every description,
especially the political or patriotic enthusiast, like Joan of Arc.
It should be observed that the terms “masculine” and “feminine” are
not used in a mutually exclusive sense. Carrying on the tradition of
Weininger and Fliess, these terms are employed to designate traits
which may be present in different proportions in the same person.[27]
TABLE II
Dimension Polar Elements
Sexuality Masculine A
Feminine a
Psychomotility Psychosadistic B
Psychomasochistic b
Emotionality Hyperemotional C
Hypo-emotional c
Morality Moral D
Immoral d
Intellectuality Superior E
(specialized) Inferior e
Accessory elements Altruistic F
Egotistic f
The political man appears in Jung’s system at various intersections of
his underlying scheme. The essential cleavage in Jung’s classification
is between those whose psychic energy (libido) flows outward
toward objects (extraversion) and those whose libido flows inward
(introversion). The former enter into full affective relations with
the world around; the latter are mainly focused on their private
interpretations of experience. In addition to these fundamental dynamic
relationships, Jung sub-classifies with reference to our fundamental
psychological functions: thinking, feeling, sensation, intuition. These
functions may operate against one another consciously or unconsciously.
So, when thinking predominates in consciousness, feeling is repressed;
and the reverse. Intuition is understood to be a kind of instinctive
comprehension, a function peculiarly dependent upon the unconscious.
According to the predominance of one or another of these basic
functions, Jung constructs four special types of extraversion and
introversion.
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