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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 A Discarded Tradition 2 Interpretative Methods; Psycho-Social Paradigms 5 PART ONE. CIVILIZATION AND THE PSYCHE: OPPOSING PSYCHO-SOCIAL PARADIGMS IN SIGMUND FREUD¿S WRITINGS ON CIVILIZATION 13 Introduction to Part One 14 I. CIVILIZATION AS A SOCIAL FACT IMPOSED ON THE PSYCHE 16 1. Translations of Social Economy into Psychic Economy 17 2. The Internalization of External Coercion 20 3. Social Class Distinctions 22 4. Sociologistic and Psychologistic Formulations 23 II. BACKDATING THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION 29 1. Clash of Psycho-Social Paradigms 29 2. A Chronological Puzzle 34 3. The Social Politics of Religious Antipathy 36 III. THE SOCIAL PSYCHISM 44 1. Freud¿s New Instinct Theory: from Biology to Sociology 44 2. An Abstraction of a Higher Order 46 3. Four Mental Processes Embodied in the Social 48 The Characterological Definition of the Social 48 The Narcissism of Minor Differences 49 The Cultural Superego 51 Communal Neuroses 52 PART TWO. THE MEDIATION OF THE PSYCHE IN SOCIAL ACTION: PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION IN MAX WEBER¿S SOCIOLOGICAL WRITINGS 55 Introduction to Part Two 56 IV. ¿¿OBJECTIVITY¿ IN SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL POLICY¿ AND THE CRITIQUE OF PSYCHOLOGISM 57 V. THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGIOUSLY INSPIRED SOCIAL ACTION 68 1. The Discipline of Psychology 68 2. The Mediation of Psychology between Idea and Action 74 3. Weber¿s Model of Religiously Inspired Social Action in Terms of ¿Ascetic Protestantism as a Single Whole¿ 79 3. 1. Idea (Model of Action) 81 3. 2. Psychology (Model of Action) 83 3. 2. 1. Elementary Concepts of Psychic States 88 3. 2. 2. Secondary Concepts of Personality Types 92 3. 2. 3. Tertiary Concepts of National Character Types 103 3. 3. Action (Model of Action) 116 3. 4. Model of Action Summarized for ¿Ascetic Protestantism as a Single Whole¿ 119 4. The Different Ascetic Protestant Denominations (Model of Action) 120 5. The Place of Psychology in Religiously Inspired Social Action 125 VI. WEBER¿S LATER METHODOLOGICAL WRITINGS AND THREE TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGY 133 1. Psychologism 134 2. Physiological Psychology 135 3. Verstehende Psychology 143 VII. WEBER¿S USE OF VERSTEHENDE PSYCHOLOGY IN THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM 154 PART THREE. POWER AND THE PSYCHE: THEODOR ADORNO¿S FIRST EXAMINATION OF THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY 169 Introduction to Part Three 170 VIII. ¿THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE OF MARTIN LUTHER THOMAS¿ RADIO ADDRESSES¿ 172 1. Latent Fascism 174 2. Theoretical Motifs 177 2. 1. The ¿Objectivity¿ of Fascist Propaganda 178 2. 2. From Liberalism to Monopolism; from the Liberal Self to Ego Collapse 183 2. 3. Masochistic Submission 189 2. 4. ¿Our Thesis on Ambivalence¿ 192 IX. RETROSPECTIVE: THE THOMAS MANUSCRIPT AS VIEWED BY ADORNO¿S ¿SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCES OF A EUROPEAN SCHOLAR IN AMERICA¿ 198 X. THE PSYCHO-SOCIAL DIALECTIC OF ADORNO¿S ANALYSIS OF THOMAS¿ BROADCASTS 213 1. The Primacy of Social Theory 213 2. Theorizing by Elucidation and the Theoretical Listener 217 3. Immanent Critique 220 4. Method as a Reflection of the Dialectic of Reality 222 PART FOUR. THE HISTORICAL PSYCHE: NORBERT ELIAS¿S HISTORICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 227 Introduction to Part Four 229 XI. THE GENESIS OF ELIAS¿S CONCEPT OF THE HISTORICAL PSYCHE 231 1. The Ahistorical Psyche of Academic Psychology 233 2. The Rejection of Elias¿s First Insight into the Historical Psyche 234 3. From Academic Psychology to ¿the Freudians¿ 242 4. Psychogenetics 249 5. A Reconceptualization of Psychology 253 XII. PSYCHOLOGY AND HISTORY IN 258 THE DIVERSE PARTS OF THE CIVILIZING PROCESS 258 1. The Non-Psychological Parts of The Civilizing Process 259 2. The Periodization of History 261 XIII. THE DECIVILIZED PSYCHE, FREMDZWÄNGE AND THE CONSTITUTION OF HUMAN DRIVES 269 1. The Social Determination of the Psyche 271 2. Fremdzwänge, the Pressures Which People Exert on One Another 277 3. The Constitution of Human Drives 284 3. 1. The Somatic and Psychical Constitution of Drives 290 3. 2. The Social Constitution of Drives; Elias¿s Object-Relational Psychology 295 3. 3. A Hierarchy of Relative Determination 300 XIV. THE CIVILIZING OF THE PSYCHE, SOCIAL COMPETITION AND SOCIAL FEARS 304 1. Social Fears 305 2. Violence 309 3. Competition 315 3. Historical Forms of Social Competition 319 4.1. Absolutist Court Society; the Rational Ego 322 4.2. Modern Class Contradictions; Social Fears and the Bourgeois Superego 325 CONCLUSION 337 1. Five Psycho-Social Paradigms 338 Freud: The Imposition of Civilization upon the Psyche 338 Freud: the Social Psychism 339 Weber: the Mediation of the Psyche in Social Action 341 Adorno: Power and the Psyche 343 Elias: the Historical Psyche 345 2. A Paradigm of Paradigms 348 First Principle: some sociological questions require psychological answers. 348 Second Principle: the psyche dynamically alters that which society imposes upon it. 351 Third Principle: the psyche mediates the human interactions that constitute the social world. 353 Fourth Principle: a reciprocal alignment of sociological and psychological analyses requires that they occur at similar levels of abstraction. 356 3. Final Lessons 358 BIBLIOGRAPHY...................................................................................................................PAGE Index
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Social sciences -- Research.
Psychology -- Research.