Reassessing Wilhelm Reich’s Mass Psychology: Libidinality, Authoritarianism and the Rise of Fascism in advance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barnaby B. Barratt ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Psychology

Review of The mass psychology of fascism.

1947 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-367
Author(s):  
Woltmann
Keyword(s):  
Mass Psychology

“The New Generation”: Mental Hygiene and the Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1946–1967

2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 540-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Low
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Mass Psychology ◽  
National Film Board ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Schooling Practices ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact

That is the achievement of the psychologists. In our own society they are very kind, and do everything for our own good. The tales of what they do elsewhere are rather terrifying.—Hilda NeatbySo Little for the Mind (1953)Documenting the impact of the mental hygiene movement has been problematical for historians. The hygienists operated in the realm of mass psychology and social relations, within the “mentalities” of children—particularly of the postwar generation—who have left little observable evidence of changing social attitudes and relationships resulting from changes to mass child-rearing and schooling practices. The influence of the movement upon parenting literature and curricular documents may be readily observed in postwar baby books, magazines, newspapers, radio scripts, and films, as well as in the changing language of educational theorists and practitioners. But as to seeing the actual effects of this material upon any society, documentary evidence has remained elusive.

Mass psychology

Mass Hysteria ◽  
2001 ◽  
pp. 26-38
Author(s):  
Lisa Blackman ◽  
Valerie Walkerdine
Keyword(s):  
Mass Psychology

scholarly journals Freud, Said, and the ancient and classical worlds

Literator ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger M. Field
Keyword(s):  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Mass Psychology ◽  
The Impact

Sigmund Freud’s reading of the classics and Greek mythology is well documented. By contrast, Edward Said’s reading of Freud has received little attention. This article considers three main issues: how Said and Freud thought about and used ancient and classical Greek literature; the ways in which Said has read Freud reading the ancient and classical worlds; the significance of ambivalence and analogy for these readings. The article concludes that there is a necessary relationship between analogy and ambivalence. Primarily chronological, the reading also draws on Freud’s notions of latency and repression to track how Said’s approaches to ambivalence and analogy changed. In the case of Said, it is possible to attribute some of these changes to the impact of Bernal’s Black Athena, which encouraged him to review the notions of ancient Greek society which underpin Orientalism, and to Bernal’s narrative inspiration, Kuhn’s The structure of scientific revolutions. Latency and repression make it possible to posit prehistories. Therefore, the article also examines the ways in which Freud and Said have been obliged to assume continuities between prehistory and history, and between individual and mass psychology.

scholarly journals “Thirst for Obedience”: A Freudian Analysis of the Father-Leader in Adorno and Beauvoir

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jules Ostro
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Symbolic Gesture ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Mass Psychology ◽  
And Function ◽  
And Control

Theodor W. Adorno’s 1951 essay, “A Freudian analysis of Fascist Propaganda,” is a fertileground for comparison with the work of feminist existential philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, which was published just a couple of years earlier in 1949. The following exposition of Adorno’s essay and the “Introductory" and “Independent Woman” chapters in Beauvoir’s The Second Sex examines how Adorno’s application of Freudian psychoanalytic theory of mass psychology and the modern authoritarian state aligns with Beauvoir’s theoretical dialectic of the man as transcendent Subject versus the woman as immanent Other. The connective thread in both contexts is a hegemonic teleology of dominance. This hegemony is the apparatus and function of both predominately male fascist dictators and sexist social actors who pander to collective entities of followers captivated by the ostensible auspices of the Father-Leader. The following use of the term Father-Leader will be used as a symbolic gesture and catch-all term to simplify the analogy between Adorno’s fascist dictator and the historically paternalistic man. The symbolic authority of the Father-Leader lies in his ability to generate an affect-driven, hypnotic libidinal bond through the mechanisms of identification and idealization with a mass ancillary entity, in this case either a fascist following of a nation or a large majority of the population, thus maintaining social and political privilege, influence, and control.

scholarly journals Art-mob as an instrument of human and megapolis interaction

2017 ◽  
pp. 79-82
Author(s):  
M. N. Veselova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mass Psychology ◽  
Rapid Pace

The article considers art-mob as one of visual practices, which reveals the problem of human and megapolis interaction. There are the questions of loneliness, consumerist attitudes and mass psychology, rapid pace of changes and loss of connection with the past on the foreground in the modern world.

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