NP(sorta): The Mass Psychology of Fascism

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Yes, you definitely need "The Authoritarian Personality."

Thomas

Am 05.04.2012 03:02, schrieb 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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