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The Insanity of Normality - Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness (Paperback)
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The Insanity of Normality - Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness (Paperback)
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THE INSANITY OF NORMALITY: TOWARD UNDERSTANDING HUMAN
DESTRUCTIVENESS by ARNO GRUEN According to Sigmund Freud, man is
born with an innate tendency to destruction and violence; in THE
INSANITY OF NORMALITY, the psychoanalyst Arno Gruen challenges that
assumption, arguing instead that at the root of evil lies
self-hatred, a rage originating in a self-betrayal that begins in
childhood, when autonomy is surrendered in exchange for the "love"
of those who wield power over us. To share in that subjugating
power, we create a false self, an image of ourselves that springs
from a powerful and deep-seated sense of fear. Gruen traces this
pattern of adaptation and smoldering rebellion through a number of
case studies, sociological phenomena - from Nazism to Reaganomics -
and literary works. The insanity this attitude produces,
unfortunately, goes widely unrecognized precisely because it has
become the "realism" that modern society inculcates into its
members. Gruen warns, however, that escape from this pattern lies
not simply in rebellion, for the rebel remains emotionally tied to
the object of his rebellion, but in the development of a personal
autonomy. His elegant and far-reaching conclusion is that while
autonomy is not easily attained, its absence proves catastrophic to
both individual and society. "With compassion and conviction Dr.
Gruen carefully exposes the undiagnosed and undisclosed insanity
unwittingly accepted as normality... This is a text for leaders and
followers, for conformists and rebels alike, for members of the
healing professions who seek to repair the destructive fallout from
our pursuit of normality and for all who strive for a more
compassionate and saner social order."-Montague Ullman, M.D. DR.
ARNO GRUEN was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States
as a child in 1936. After completing his graduate studies in
psychology at New York University, he trained in psychoanalysis
under Theodor Reik. Dr. Gruen has held many teaching posts in this
country, including seventeen years as professor of psychology at
Rutgers University. Since 1979 he has lived and practiced in
Switzerland. His groundbreaking first book, THE BETRAYAL OF THE
SELF, was published by in 1988. THE INSANITY OF NORMALITY was first
published in Germany by Ksel Verlag under the title Der Wahnsinn
der Normalitt-Realismus als Krankheit: eine grundlegende Theorie
zur menschlichen Destruktivitt. The book was first published in
English in 1992.
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