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This book provides the scope and complexity of Freud's
contributions and emphasizes the wide proliferation of the Lacanian
approach. It describes psychoanalytical theories, and is helpful
for the readers as a stimulus to independent investigation and
critical thought.
"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members
of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for
those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate.
Dehumanization has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the genocide
in Rwanda, and the slave trade possible. But it isn't just a relic
of the past. We still find it in war, genocide, xenophobia, and
racism. Smith shows that it is a dangerous mistake to think of
dehumanization as the exclusive preserve of Nazis, communists,
terrorists, Jews, Palestinians, or any other monster of the moment.
We are all potential dehumanizers, just as we are all potential
objects of dehumanization. The problem of dehumanization is
everyone's problem. "Less Than Human" is the first book to
illuminate precisely how and why we sometimes think of others as
subhuman creatures. It draws on a rich mix of history, evolutionary
psychology, biology, anthropology, and philosophy to document the
pervasiveness of dehumanization, describe its forms, and explain
why we so often resort to it. "Less Than Human" is a powerful and
highly original study of the roots of human violence and bigotry,
and it as timely as it is relevant.
How should we approach the psychological study of religion, and how
relevant is classical psychoanalysis, identified with the writings
of Sigmund Freud, to the understanding of religion? Freud's
writings on religion have been discussed often and continue to
attract attention and debate. Psychoanalysis and Theism starts with
an essay by Adolf Grunbaum, one of the world's leading philosophers
of science and an incisive critic of Freud's work. Grunbaum looks
at Freud's general claims about the psychological mechanisms
involved in religion and finds them lacking. Then, in a surprising
turn, Grunbaum judges some of Freud's interpretations of concrete
religious ideas and practices to be not only cogent, but
indispensable. When it comes to the case of the belief in Virgin
Birth, Grunbaum finds an Oedipal interpretation to be our only
choice. This remarkable essay is the stimulus for a symposium with
nine senior scholars, coming from the fields of philosophy,
psychology, sociology, and psychoanalysis, who present their
critical reflections on how we should study religion, how we should
treat Freud's ideas, and what the future directions in
psychological research on concrete religious behavior should be.
The contributors bring to this effort their varied fields of
expertise, from analytical philosophy to experimental psychology.
Of special interest are essays which deal with the Virgin Birth
doctrine and its possible psychological sources and with the
potential for future psychoanalytic studies of faith and ritual.
Other essays focus on Freud's conscious and unconscious motivations
for studying religion as well as the hidden biases and lacunae
found in the social science literature on religious practices. This
volume adds a unique combination of critical and knowledgeable
voices to the debate on Sigmund Freud's legacy."
Hidden Conversations introduces Robert Langs radical
reinterpretation of psychoanalysis by presenting and expanding his
ideas in new and accessible ways. It is the first clear account of
the theories underlying Langs approach, placing them within the
context of the history of psychoanalysis and showing, for example,
that Freud nearly discovered the communicative approach in the late
1890s, and that in the 1930s Ferenczi also anticipated the method.
David Livingstone Smith illustrates this communicative approach
with a wealth of practical detail and clinical examples, including
verbatim accounts of communicative psychoanalytical sessions with a
commentary on the unconscious processes underlying them.
The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African
Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of
mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that
we could never see such evils again-that we would stand up and
fight. But something deep in the human psyche-deeper than prejudice
itself-leads people to persecute the other: dehumanization, or the
human propensity to think of others as less than human. An
award-winning author and philosopher, Smith takes an unflinching
look at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone
as less than human. There is something peculiar and horrifying in
human psychology that makes us vulnerable to thinking of whole
groups of people as subhuman creatures. When governments or other
groups stand to gain by exploiting this innate propensity, and know
just how to manipulate words and images to trigger it, there is no
limit to the violence and hatred that can result. Drawing on
numerous historical and contemporary cases and recent psychological
research, On Inhumanity is the first accessible guide to the
phenomenon of dehumanization. Smith walks readers through the
psychology of dehumanization, revealing its underlying role in both
notorious and lesser-known episodes of violence from history and
current events. In particular, he considers the uncomfortable
kinship between racism and dehumanization, where beliefs involving
race are so often precursors to dehumanization and the horrors that
flow from it. On Inhumanity is bracing and vital reading in a world
lurching towards authoritarian political regimes, resurgent white
nationalism, refugee crises that breed nativist hostility, and
fast-spreading racist rhetoric. The book will open your eyes to the
pervasive dangers of dehumanization and the prejudices that can too
easily take root within us, and resist them before they spread into
the wider world.
A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others-and
how and why we do it. "I wouldn't have accepted that they were
human beings. You would see an infant who's just learning to smile,
and it smiles at you, but you still kill it." So a Hutu man
explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he
felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statements are
shocking, yet we recognize them; we hear their echoes in accounts
of genocides, massacres, and pogroms throughout history. How do
some people come to believe that their enemies are monsters, and
therefore easy to kill? In Making Monsters David Livingstone Smith
offers a poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological
roots of dehumanization. Drawing on harrowing accounts of
lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and what it
isn't. When we dehumanize our enemy, we hold two incongruous
beliefs at the same time: we believe our enemy is at once subhuman
and fully human. To call someone a monster, then, is not merely a
resort to metaphor-dehumanization really does happen in our minds.
Turning to an abundance of historical examples, Smith explores the
relationship between dehumanization and racism, the psychology of
hierarchy, what it means to regard others as human beings, and why
dehumanizing others transforms them into something so terrifying
that they must be destroyed. Meticulous but highly readable, Making
Monsters suggests that the process of dehumanization is deeply
seated in our psychology. It is precisely because we are all human
that we are vulnerable to the manipulations of those trading in the
politics of demonization and violence.
Hidden Conversations introduces Robert Langs radical
reinterpretation of psychoanalysis by presenting and expanding his
ideas in new and accessible ways. It is the first clear account of
the theories underlying Langs approach, placing them within the
context of the history of psychoanalysis and showing, for example,
that Freud nearly discovered the communicative approach in the late
1890s, and that in the 1930s Ferenczi also anticipated the method.
David Livingstone Smith illustrates this communicative approach
with a wealth of practical detail and clinical examples, including
verbatim accounts of communicative psychoanalytical sessions with a
commentary on the unconscious processes underlying them.
This collection of essays aims to further the understanding of
historical and contemporary geographies of science. It offers a
fresh perspective on comparative approaches to scientific knowledge
and practice as pursued by geographers, sociologists,
anthropologists, and historians of science. The authors explore the
formation and changing geographies of scientific centers from the
sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and critically discuss the
designing of knowledge spaces in early museums, in modern
laboratories, at world fairs, and in the periphery of contemporary
science. They also analyze the interactions between science and the
public in Victorian Britain, interwar Germany, and recent
environmental policy debates. The book provides a genuine
geographical perspective on the production and dissemination of
knowledge and will thus be an important point of reference for
those interested in the spatial relations of science and associated
fields.
The Klaus Tschira Foundation supports diverse symposia, the
essence of which is published in this Springer series
(www.kts.villa-bosch.de).
This collection of essays aims to further the understanding of
historical and contemporary geographies of science. It offers a
fresh perspective on comparative approaches to scientific knowledge
and practice as pursued by geographers, sociologists,
anthropologists, and historians of science. The authors explore the
formation and changing geographies of scientific centers from the
sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and critically discuss the
designing of knowledge spaces in early museums, in modern
laboratories, at world fairs, and in the periphery of contemporary
science. They also analyze the interactions between science and the
public in Victorian Britain, interwar Germany, and recent
environmental policy debates. The book provides a genuine
geographical perspective on the production and dissemination of
knowledge and will thus be an important point of reference for
those interested in the spatial relations of science and associated
fields.
The Klaus Tschira Foundation supports diverse symposia, the
essence of which is published in this Springer series
(www.kts.villa-bosch.de).
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Blood Over Water (Paperback)
James Livingston, David Livingston
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This title is shortlisted for The Best New Writer Category of The
British Sports Book Awards 2010. On an overcast April day in 2003,
David and James Livingston raced against each other in the 149th
Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. Watched by over seven million people,
it was the first time for over a hundred years that brothers had
battled against each other in this gladiatorial contest. Only one
could be victorious. In "Blood Over Water", David and James tell
their stories for the first time, giving an intimate insight into
one of our best-loved national sporting occasions, whilst also
describing a brotherly relationship tested to breaking point. It is
an emotional and searching joint self-portrait that looks at the
darker side of sibling rivalry and asks just what you would be
willing to sacrifice to achieve your dreams.
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