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Sanctioned social violence

A psychoanalytic view ‐ Part I

Bibliographic Data

ID8973507
AuthorsOtto F Kernberg (Personality Disorders Institute, The New York‐Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605, USA ‐, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume84
Issue3
Pages683-698
Publication date2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1516/xfvq-lycb-e40k-cxrf
OpenAlexW4251271483
LanguageEN
Citations received36
References cited14

This paper is the first of a series of two that present an effort to systematize the application of psychoanalytic theory of group processes to the outbreak of massive violence. It explores the origins and social amplification of primitive aggression by means of group psychology and mass psychology, and the combined influences of the regressive pull of ideologies, the personality features of social and political leadership, and the triggering impact of historical trauma and social crises. The paper describes a spectrum of narcissistic‐paranoid mechanisms that provide a common matrix for the analysis of those aspects of social psychology that co‐determine socially sanctioned violence

Aggression · Criminology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Law · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy

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