1st Edition

The Psychopathology of Political Ideologies

By Robert Samuels Copyright 2022
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

Inspired by Freud’s The Psychopathology of Everyday Life , this book examines the unconscious processes shaping contemporary political ideologies. Addressing ten fundamental questions, Robert Samuels identifies four basic political ideologies: liberal, conservative, Left, and Right, which are often placed in the structure of a logical square, determined by two binary oppositions, with a fifth... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Jonathan Haidt and the Five Political Ideologies

3. On the Psychopathology of Polarization

4. Understanding the Psychopathology of the Right

5. The Hysterical Left and the Narcissistic Center

6. The Anti-Ideology Ideology: Re-Discovering the Enlightenment

7. Conclusion

Biography

Robert Samuels is a lecturer of writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of numerous books, including Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University (2021).