Psychology and Politics
The Freudian Connection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6410889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Rieff (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 293-305 |
| Publication date | 1955-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2009149 |
| OpenAlex | W2324175147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
For roughly a century—if we take the years from Fourier and Bentham to the triumph of Freud—the study of politics concerned itself mainly with institutions. Fourier, in plotting a Utopia, took his individuals just as they were, expecting by the perfection of social arrangements to turn individual weakness and vice into virtues. Bentham also by-passed the infinite problem of the individual (this was relegated to religion) and concentrated on the finite reform of institutions; the greatest happiness of the greatest number was never the principle of an individual psychology, although since 1832 Bentham's formula has grown ironically appropriate as the individual in a mass society has become, characteristically, a quantity
Economics · Epistemology · Freudian slip · Happiness · Jeremy bentham · Mass society · Perfection · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Utopia · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |