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" The mass psychology of fascism / "
Wilhelm Reich ; newly translated from the German by Vincent R. Carfagno.
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987941
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b742311
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Massenpsychologie des Faschismus.English
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Reich, Wilhelm,1897-1957.
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The mass psychology of fascism /\ Wilhelm Reich ; newly translated from the German by Vincent R. Carfagno.
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3rd ed.
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New York :: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, ©1970.
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xxxi, 400 pages ;; 22 cm
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0374203040
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: 0374203644
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: 9780374203641
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: 9780374508845
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| Notes
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Translation of: Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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I. Ideology as a material force -- The cleavage -- Economic and ideological structure of the German society, 1928-1933 -- How mass psychology sees the problem -- The social function of sexual repression -- II. The authoritarian ideology of the family in the mass psychology of fascism -- Führer and mass structure -- Hitler's background -- On the mass psychology of the lower middle class -- Family ties and nationalistic feelings -- Nationalistic self-confidence -- The "domestication" of the industrial workers -- III. The race theory -- Its contents -- The objective and subjective functions of ideology -- Racial purity, blood poisoning, and mysticism -- IV. The symbolism of the swastika -- V. The sex-economic presuppositions of the authoritarian family -- VI. Organized mysticism as an international anti-sexual organization -- The interest in the church -- The fight against "cultural Bolshevism" -- The appeal to mystical feelings -- The goal of the cultural revolution in the light of fascist reaction -- VII. Sex-economy in the fight against mysticism -- The three basic elements of religious feeling -- Anchoring of religion by means of sexual anxiety -- Healthy and neurotic self-confidence -- VIII. Some questions of sex-political practice -- Theory and practice -- The struggle against mysticism until now -- Sexual happiness contra mysticism -- The individual uprootment of the religious feeling -- The practice of sex-economy and objections to it -- The nonpolitical man -- IX. The masses and the state -- 1936: Speak the truth -- but how & when? -- "What takes place in the masses of people?" -- The "socialist yearning" -- The "withering away of the state" -- The program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Eighth Party Congress, 1919) -- The "introduction of Soviet democracy" -- The development of the apparatus of the authoritarian state from rational social relationships -- The social function of state capitalism -- X. Biosocial function of work -- The problem of "voluntary work discipline" -- XI. Give responsibility to vitally necessary work! -- What is "work-democracy"? -- What is new in work-democracy? -- XII. The biologic miscalculation in the human struggle for freedom -- Our interest in the development of freedom -- Biologic rigidity, incapacity for freedom, and mechanical authoritarian view of life -- The arsenal of human freedom -- XIII. On natural work-democracy -- Investigation of the natural social forces for the purpose of overcoming the emotional plague -- Work in contrast to politics -- Notes on objective criticism and irrational caviling -- Work is inherently rational -- Vitally necessary and other work.
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I. Ideology as a material force -- The cleavage -- Economic and ideological structure of the German society, 1928-1933 -- How mass psychology sees the problem -- The social function of sexual repression -- II. The authoritarian ideology of the family in the mass psychology of fascism -- Führer and mass structure -- Hitler's background -- On the mass psychology of the lower middle class -- Family ties and nationalistic feelings -- Nationalistic self-confidence -- The "domestication" of the industrial workers -- III. The race theory -- Its contents -- The objective and subjective functions of ideology -- Racial purity, blood poisoning, and mysticism -- IV. The symbolism of the swastika -- V. The sex-economic presuppositions of the authoritarian family -- VI. Organized mysticism as an international anti-sexual organization -- The interest in the church -- The fight against "cultural Bolshevism" -- The appeal to mystical feelings -- The goal of the cultural revolution in the light of fascist reaction -- VII. Sex-economy in the fight against mysticism -- The three basic elements of religious feeling -- Anchoring of religion by means of sexual anxiety -- Healthy and neurotic self-confidence -- VIII. Some questions of sex-political practice -- Theory and practice -- The struggle against mysticism until now -- Sexual happiness contra mysticism -- The individual uprootment of the religious feeling -- The practice of sex-economy and objections to it -- The nonpolitical man -- IX. The masses and the state -- 1936: Speak the truth -- but how & when? -- "What takes place in the masses of people?" -- The "socialist yearning" -- The "withering away of the state" -- The program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Eighth Party Congress, 1919) -- The "introduction of Soviet democracy" -- The development of the apparatus of the authoritarian state from rational social relationships -- The social function of state capitalism -- X. Biosocial function of work -- The problem of "voluntary work discipline" -- XI. Give responsibility to vitally necessary work! -- What is "work-democracy"? -- What is new in work-democracy? -- XII. The biologic miscalculation in the human struggle for freedom -- Our interest in the development of freedom -- Biologic rigidity, incapacity for freedom, and mechanical authoritarian view of life -- The arsenal of human freedom -- XIII. On natural work-democracy -- Investigation of the natural social forces for the purpose of overcoming the emotional plague -- Work in contrast to politics -- Notes on objective criticism and irrational caviling -- Work is inherently rational -- Vitally necessary and other work. 650 0.
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Fascism.
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Sex.
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Social psychology.
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Government.
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Political Systems.
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Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
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Psychology, Social.
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Sex.
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Fascisme.
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Psychologie sociale.
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Sexualité
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Fascism.
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Fascism.
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Fascisme.
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Psychologie sociale.
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Sex.
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Sex.
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Sexualité.
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Social psychology.
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Social psychology.
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| Dewey Classification
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320.5/33/019
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JC481.R39213 1970
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WM 460.5.P7R347m 1970a
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15.70bcl
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89.50bcl
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89.61bcl
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| Added Entry
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Mazal Holocaust Collection.
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