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The Essential Being : Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism

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This book explores the concept of "pre-conceptual trauma", drawing in particular on the pioneering research of Wilfred Bion.

A comparison is established between two different groups of individuals: five well-known dictators and five famous creative individuals.

The authors have defined "pre-conceptual traumas" as ubiquitous experiences that all hum

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Product Details
Routledge
0367327821 / 9780367327828
Hardback
320.533
31/07/2019
United Kingdom
194 pages
152 x 229 mm, 521 grams