Schiffer, Irvine.

Charisma: A Psychoanalytic Look at Mass Society.

Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1973. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. XVI, 184 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some stronger signs of external wear to the dustjacket.

Includes for example the following essays: The projective way of life / The charisma of the foreigner / The calling / The charismatic sexual mystique / The charisma of innovative lifestyles / Infantile symbiosis / The emerging conscience / The barrier of the will / The uncanny / Deja-vu / The loser / The pivotal mother / The charismatic communal myth / The activist / The sexual niche / The insightful society etc.

″Dr Schiffer is a practising psychoanalyst who is also a professor of psychiatry and of political science. From these vantage points he has developed an intriguing psycho-political approach to the theory of leadership and the origins of group behaviour. // He postulates that each person in a democratic society contributes his or her own unique developmental conflicts nd heroic imagery to the creation of an idalized political leader. The need for charistma can be explained by classic Freudian psychology provided one substitutes the pivotal mother for the primordial father as the key bonding force in group psychology. It then follows that the child, separated from the mother at birth, seeks to recapture oneness (identity) through an outside heroic (political) image which iws a projection of that lost part of itself.” (Publisher)

• Keywords: crowds · Mass Communications · Mass Media · Mass Society · Psychoanalysis · Psychology – Rare
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802019587
• Inventory Number: 72866AB

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