Society Without the Father
Subtitle: A contribution to social psychology
Publisher: Harcourt Brace and World
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780060974206
Table of contents: title: Personal Acknowledgements; title: Foreword: Mitscherlich and His Uncomfortable Thoughts - by Robert Bly; title: Introductory: The Dynamics of Adaptation; title: The long years of childhood; title: Development of aptitudes and social environment; title: Adaptation, closed and open; title: Adaptation is not progress; title: Cultural adaptation: a process of selective accommodation; title: Four basic components of adaptation to the human environment; title: The limits of social tolerance; title: The dynamics of human adaptation; title: A new junction, the extension ofconsciousness; title: CHAPTER 2 - Adaptation and Insight; title: Social renunciation and instinctual surplus; title: Surplus aggressivity; title: Growth and education; title: A co-ordinated search; title: Three Uvels of education; title: Dialectical function of education; title: The acquisition of knowledge; title: Affective education; title: Social education; title: Composite nature of education; title: Affects and defence against the alien; title: Historical change and the drive for knowledge; title: Aspects of the ego; title: CHAPTER 3 - Insufficiency of Instinct; title: Evolution of the conscious; title: Mythology v. science; title: The conscious and social integration; title: Evolution becomes conscious of itself; title: The converging sciences; title: The protestant line; title: Lack of sharp outline of human roles; title: Roles as signals; title: Possessions as signals; title: The individual as role; title: Roles as the enemy of understanding; title: Precariousness of learnt role behaviour; title: Roles and masks; title: Transfiguration of the past; title: The overburdened mother; title: Animals and men; title: 'Re-education'; title: CHAPTER 4 - The Precariousness of Moralities; title: The creation of identity; title: Satisfying renunciation; title: Unsatisfying renunciation; title: Collective structural changes in self-awareness; title: Problems of size; title: Rationalisation or fatalism?; title: Cultural pressure to evil; title: Hope as part of mans ‘openness’; title: CHAPTER 5 - Dynamics of the Drive; title: Drives and guilt; title: Forms of fossilization; title: Confluence of instincts; title: Hostility to instinct; title: Conservatisms; title: Terminological; title: Identification and moral injunctions; title: Ambivalence and discord; title: Inner objects; title: CHAPTER 6 - Ego and Ego Ideal; title: Good examples and bad effects; title: Doubtful ancestor cults; title: Conflicts of motivation; title: How to evade the code; title: The ego as energy transformer; title: The necessity of empathy; title: The passengers; title: A product of paternalism; title: Ego ideal in the open social field; title: The need for good counsel; title: The enlightened official; title: Fathers who can learn from their sons; title: Ego-strengthening education; title: CHAPTER 7 - The Invisible Father; title: Creating the behaviour repertoire; title: Affective and object-related alienation; title: Magical thought and conservatism; title: Authority loses its substance; title: Classless mass man; title: The father as bogy man; title: Conflicts of ambivalence; title: Roots of the social-climbing mania; title: Unassuaged thirst for identification and prolonged adolescence; title: Fatherlessness in an over-organised society; title: CHAPTER 8 - Obedience, Autonomy, Anarchy; title: Obedience to instinct; title: Learnt obedience; title: Ambivalence; title: After-effects of punishment; title: Rigidity or openness to development?; title: Sublimation and ego development; title: Repetition compulsion; title: Regressive idealisation; title: The seat of anxiety; title: Instillation of fear as a method of control; title: Obedience to the ego; title: Empathy and detachment; title: Education for insecurity, and some thoughts on ideas of political unity; title: Postscript: the disciplined body; title: CHAPTER 9 - Taboo; title: CHAPTER 10 - Roles; title: Worse than death; title: Searching for new collective attitudes; title: Group need of a boundary line; title: Mass regression; title: Managers and apparatchiks; title: Readiness to obey and the trend to terrorism; title: A disappointment; title: The parish-pwnp outlook; title: Enlightenment up-to-date; title: Cast-iron alibi; title: Transcending roles; title: CHAPTER 11 - Prejudices and Their Manipulation; title: Human rights v. prejudices; title: Obedience to prejudice; title: Pseudo-rationalism; title: Influencing the man in the street; title: Sacrifice of the intellect; title: From divine state to divine bureaucracy; title: Blows to pride and the response; title: Prejudice and conscience; title: On being confronted with prejudice about oneself; title: Brief apologia for gossip; title: CHAPTER 12 - Two Kinds of Fatherlessness; title: From Oedipal rivalry to sibling envy; title: The interested agents; title: Loveless childhood and lifeless old age; title: The detachment effect; title: Encroachment on territory and dissociation of instinct; title: Fatherlessness of the first and second degree; title: Chimerical ego ideal; title: Disappearance without trace of the Führer; title: Military digression; title: The economic significance of idols; title: A successful compromise; title: Sibling fear of ties; title: CHAPTER 13 - Epilogue; title: Emancipation; title: Remarks on method; title: Detachment v. alienation