1st Edition
Psychoanalysis, International Relations, and Diplomacy A Sourcebook on Large-Group Psychology
By Vamik D. Volkan
Copyright 2014
170 Pages
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Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
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Routledge
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The author has three goals in writing this book. The first is to explore large-group identity such as ethnic identity, diplomacy, political propaganda, terrorism and the role of leaders in international affairs. The second goal is to describe societal and political responses to trauma at the hands of the Other, large-group mourning, and the appearance of the history of ancestors and its... Read more
Foreword , About this Book , Diplomats and psychoanalysts , Large-group identity, shared prejudice, chosen glories, and chosen traumas , Entitlement ideologies , The Crusades, the fall of Constantinople, and the “Megali Idea” , Traumatised large groups, societal shifts, and transgenerational transmissions , Large-group regression and progression , Unending mourning and memorials , Political leaders’ personalities , Reactivation of a chosen trauma , Intertwining old “memories” and affects with current ones , Political propaganda, suicide bombers, and terrorism , “Unofficial” diplomacy and psychoanalytic large-group psychology
Biography
Vamik D Volkan
