NP(sorta): The Mass Psychology of Fascism

[Mark Kohut]

I would offer that Weber's essay on charisma in politics might be essential as
well as
The Authoritarian Personality and
the best psychologists (and they can be novelists) on psychological indepence of mind
as an adult and societal value.......
 
Bernays, a cousin--or nephew--of Freud'sinvented PR......just sayin'...

From: Thomas Wynne <thomaswynne at earthlink.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2012 6:58 PM
Subject: NP(sorta): The Mass Psychology of Fascism

hey all,
I've been following the p-list for a while now but have been content to just listen in til now. anyways, I'm working on an independent project at the Evergreen State College focusing mainly on the "mass psychology of fascism" and its relation to institutionalized sexual repression or control-- 

(there's a lot in GR that relates in various degrees to what I'm doing my creative project on, and that's the only one of Pynchon's books I can say I've really read [that is, the only one I've read more than once ;) ])

I was hoping there were some psychology/lit buffs here who could point me in the right direction-- I'm looking for books, movies, plays/operas, comics, tv shows... anything that might relate.

Foucault calls Deleuze & Guattari's The Anti-Oedipus "an introduction to the nonfascist life"... I spoze I'm making a (playful, loose, maybe zine-ish) "handbook to the nonfascist life" 

Any thoughts? also, anybody know anything much about Wilhelm Reich? I've read The Function of the Orgasm & bits of Character Analysis, and am just starting TMPoF...

Thanks,
tom w

PS here's a rough list of the reading I intend to do this semester:

Primary Texts:
Nietzsche: The Genealogy of Morals
Freud: Three Essays on Sexuality
Reich: The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Deleuze & Guattari: The Anti-Œdipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia  

Possible Secondary Texts:
Benjamin: Illuminations 
Goethe: Faust
Ibsen: Peer Gynt
Musil: The Confusions of Young Törless
Jung: “Relations Between Ego & Unconscious” and “Phenomenology of the Self,” from The Portable Jung
Schreber: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
Turner: Adventures In The Orgasmatron
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