The Leader, the Led, and the Psyche: Essays in Psychohistory

Type

Book

Authors

Bruce Mazlish

ISBN 10

0819552208

ISBN 13

9780819552204

Tags

Psychology & Counseling, History, General, Psychotherapy, TA & NLP, Leadership

Description

Introduction: The science of psychoanalysis, the social sciences, and history -- I. The applicability of psychoanalysis -- Darwin, the bedrock of psychoanalysis -- Darwin, the benchuca, and genius -- Freud and Nietzsche -- The hysterical personality and history -- Autobiography and psychoanalysis -- II. The intellectual as leader -- The importance of being Karl Marx, or Henry Thoreau, or anybody -- Jevons's science and his "Second Nature," -- The iron cage of Max Weber -- III. The examination of political leadership -- Prolegomena to psychohistory -- The hidden Khomeini -- Orwell inside the whale -- IV. The case of the USA -- The iron of melancholy -- Crèvecoeur's New World -- Leadership in the American Revolution : the psychological dimension -- A psychohistorical inquiry : the "real" Richard Nixon -- V. Toward a group psychology -- Leader and led, individual and group -- The American psyche.

Biblio Notes

Includes bibliographical references (page 321) and indexes.

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