1st Edition
Ethics of Evil Psychoanalytic Investigations
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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In today's world where every form of transgression enjoys a psychological motive and rational justification, psychoanalysis stands alone in its ability to uncover the hidden motives that inform individual and social collective behaviour. Both in theory and practice, it bears witness to the impact of anonymity on the potential for perpetration, especially when others are experienced as faceless,... Read more
Introduction: Moralising evil , How Ought We to Live? , On the brink of extinction , The antinomy of morality in Freud , The psychology of evil , Clinical Applications , The intergenerational transmission of the catastrophic effects of real world history expressed through the analytic subject , For the love of money: dissociation, crime, and the challenges of ethical life , Applied Studies , Past imperfect: historical trauma and its transmission , The lie of the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt's fatal flaw
Biography
Jon Mills
