NP(sorta): The Mass Psychology of Fascism

[Paul Mackin]

On 4/5/2012 4:47 AM, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
> Yes, you definitely need "The Authoritarian Personality."
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> Thomas

Also Erich Fromm is a little more respectable than Reich on the 
subject--more historical (although Herbert Marcuse said he watered down 
his Freud--and Marcuse himself had second thoughts on sexual repression 
after watching the late 60s)

Also Vineland had that part about needing authority. Don't remember 
exactly where.

P
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> 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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