Gaetano Benedetti

Arno Gruen

Kadın ve Erkekte Özerklik Korkusu; Gaetano Benedetti'nin Önsözüyle

Kendine İhanet

hastalık olarak gerçekçilik: insandaki yıkıcılık üzerine bir kuram

Normalliğin deliliği

İhanete uğrayan sevgi - sahte tanrılar

kayıtsızlık politikası üzerine

Empatinin yitimi

die Angst vor Autonomie bei Mann und Frau

Der Verrat am Selbst

"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 worlds. 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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Realism as Sickness : Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness

The Insanity of Normality

Psychoanalyst Gruen argues 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. He traces this pattern of adaptation and smoldering rebellion through a number of case studies, sociological phenomena, and literary worlds.

Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness

o realismo como doença: uma teoria fundamental da destrutividade humana

A loucura da normalidade

Verratene Liebe - falsche Götter

Der Fremde in uns

Ashley Montagu

By defining man's vulnerability as his strength, Dr. Gruen points the way to a psychoanalysis of personal courage and social responsibility, at the same time exposing the childhood split which leads man to abandon his true self.

The Fear of Autonomy in Men and Women

The Betrayal of the Self

Wider den Gehorsam

Arno Gruen

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