Psychosis and Power : : Threats to Democracy in the Self and the Group /

Psychosis and Power : : Threats to Democracy in the Self and the Group / / James M. Glass.

In the world of psychosis, the rejected misfit becomes a revered leader; the powerless dominates galaxies. Exploring a microcosm of tyranny within the psychotic self, James M. Glass maps the psychological origins of domination. As he documents forms of social participation that promote the healing o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Glass, James M.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1995
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 6 drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Psychotic Unhinging: The Terror of Delusion
  • 2. Psychotic Time: Withdrawal from Consensual Reality
  • 3. Jenny: Power as Projection of the Inner
  • 4. Tragedy: Power as Delusional Tyranny
  • 5. Maureen: Power as Assault on the Flesh
  • 6. Power and Its Construction: An Argument between Alice Miller and Michel Foucault
  • 7. Psychosis in the Collective: The Group as Agent of Unconscious Phantasy
  • 8. The Ego Ideal: Power as Hate and Disintegration
  • 9. Identity and Power: The Disintegrating Self
  • 10. Psychodynamic Preconditions for the Democratic Exercise of Power
  • 11. Conclusion: Psychosis, Political Value, and Democracy
  • Afterword
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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