NP(sorta): The Mass Psychology of Fascism

[Joe Allonby]

And don't forget "The Sane Society".

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.........
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> Which may be why you are on the list.....
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> 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
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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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