Overview
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (17 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Presidential Profiles
-
Front Matter
-
-
A Global Village?
-
Front Matter
-
-
Making War, Making Peace
-
Front Matter
-
Keywords
About this book
The world is a different place today.* Much of this has to do with the increasing volume and clarity of the people's collective voice. The power and pressing desire in man for autonomy, self-determination, and change are emerging as a demand. As a consequence, Communist governments are giving way to democratic re structuring, Europe is being recrafted, and the Cold War is slowly thawing. Simultaneously, back home, our government is becoming increasingly bogged down by media-created political images and psychodramas lacking in substance and value-the degree of exposure somehow determined more by commercial appeal (inherent sensationalism) than merit. The newborn child (Le., the budding democracies) is looking eagerly to Uncle Sam as a role model: throughout the world, people are quoting our political scriptures, our proclamations, our Bill of Rights, and yet as models we seem sorely lacking. Given this climate, this book intends to address a number of contemporary themes: the role of the media-symbolization, idealization, and projection---on political choice; the roles of group fantasy; and the more rational force of II group governance" on political elections; the personalities of our presidents and leaders, their psychic vulnerabilities, their public versus private personas and how this division interacts with the complex unraveling of historical events (for example, Jimmy Carter's response to crises in Afghanistan and Iran, Michael Dukakis and the 1988 campaign, George Bush's emergence as president, John F. Kennedy and his private versus public personas, Anwar Sadat as myth and symbol).
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics and Psychology
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Psychodynamic Perspectives
Editors: Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5919-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
-
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1991
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43864-6Due: 30 November 1991
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5921-0Published: 30 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5919-7Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 336