NP(sorta): The Mass Psychology of Fascism

[Mark Kohut]

yes,maybe Fromm's Escape From Freedom is most right on. 
 
TRP's exploration of power in politics and relationships--the State
and the personal---leaves his vision of the human, an anarchic community
of free individuals, taking care of itself, one kind of handbook of the
nonfascist state.........
 
Which may be why you are on the list.....

From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: NP(sorta): The Mass Psychology of Fascism

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