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ISBN 10: 1138828548
ISBN 13: 9781138828544
Author: Ronald C Naso, Jon Mills
Psychoanalysis has traditionally had difficulty in accounting for the existence of evil. Freud saw it as a direct expression of unconscious forces, whereas more recent theorists have examined the links between early traumatic experiences and later ‘evil’ behaviour. Humanizing Evil: Psychoanalytic, Philosophical and Clinical Perspectives explores the controversies surrounding definitions of evil, and examines its various forms, from the destructive forces contained within the normal mind to the most horrific expressions observed in contemporary life. Ronald Naso and Jon Mills bring together an international group of experts to explore how more subtle factors can play a part, such as conformity pressures, or the morally destabilizing effects of anonymity, and show how analysts can understand and work with such factors in clinical practice. Each chapter is unified by the view that evil is intrinsically linked to human freedom, regardless of the gap experienced by perpetrators between their intentions and consequences. While some forms of evil follow seamlessly from psychopathology, others call this relationship into question. Rape, murder, serial killing, and psychopathy show very clear links to psychopathology and character whereas the horrors of war, religious fundamentalism, and political extremism resist such reductionism. Humanizing Evil is unique in the diversity of perspectives it brings to bear on the problem of evil. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, philosophers, and Jungians. Because it is an integrative depth-psychological effort, it will interest general readers as well as scholars from a variety of disciplines including the humanities, philosophy, religion, mental health, criminal justice, political science, sociology, and interdisciplinary studies. Ronald Naso, Ph.D., ABPP is psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in independent practice in Stamford, CT. The author of numerous papers on psychoanalytic topics, he is an associate editor of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, and contributing editor of Division/Review and Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry. His book, Hypocrisy Unmasked: Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity, was published by Aronson in 2010. Jon Mills, Psy.D., Ph.D., ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. He is Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis at Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto. A 2006, 2011, and 2013 Gradiva Award winner, he is Editor of two book series in psychoanalysis, on the Editorial Board for Psychoanalytic Psychology, and is the author and/or editor of thirteen books including his most recent works, Underworlds: Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics, and Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, which won the Goethe Award for best book in 2013.
Table of contents:
Part I Formulating Evil
1 The Essence of Evil
What is Evil?
Radical Evil
The Relativity of Evil
On Universality
On the Question of Essence
The Normativity of Evil
Evil as Appearance
The Ethics of Evil
Institutionalization
The Evil Within
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
2 The Psychoanalytical Relevance of Jacob Böhme’s Concept of Evil
Introduction
Böhmian Elements in the Early Freudian Model of the Personality
Böhmian Elements in Jung
Böhme’s Theogony in Outline
The Question of Evil
Acknowledgment
Notes
References
3 Demonic Consciousness as a Dynamic of Evil Jungian Approaches to Understanding Evil
Answer to Job
Demon and Daimon
Insights from Jung’s Study of Types of Consciousness
The Case of Mersault
Clinical Example
Notes
References
Part II The Psychology of Perpetration
4 Breaking Bad and the Rhetoric of Evil
Breaking Bad as Character Pathology
Breaking Bad and Unconscious Compromise
The Relevance of Group Psychology
Deconstructing Nick
The Rhetoric of Evil
Conclusion
References
5 Predatory Identity
References
6 The Psychodynamics of Evil Motives behind Acts of Extreme Violence in Peacetime
The New Evil
Bullying
Child Abuse
Cruelty
Fetus-Snatching
Home-Invasion
Infanticide
Jealousy-Murder
Kidnap
Mass Murder
Murder with Aggravated Circumstances
Rape
Serial Sexual Homicide
Torture without Murder
Uxoricide
Commentary
Coda
References
Part III Clinical Applications
7 Trauma and Evil Questions of Ethics and Aesthetics for a Profession in Crisis
Theory of Trauma in the Face of Evil
Crisis of Ideality
Allergy to Affect
Sadism at Its Best
The Fall of the Expert
Ethics of Care
References
8 Witnessing Evil
Introduction
Private Witnessing
Collective Witnessing
Belief Systems, Ideology and Trauma
Distancing and Cooperation
Conclusion
References
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