Death, politics, and the hubris of consciousness : politics and psychoanalysis

Human nature and contemporary social science: the loss of perspective. Psyche and the illusion of causality. Jung's symbolic psychology. Politics and the fear of death: the crisis of authority. Mass man, individualism, and nonparticipation: the tyranny of the unconscious. Reflections on Phobos and politics

'Politics in our time is a politics of fear. Any cursory exploration of current domestic or international politics with its potential for destruction and domination would reveal this character. Psychologically it is a politics which has arisen due to the splitting off of the unconscious from the conscious mind; from the exclusion of the nonrational from our analyses of human nature. To examine this problem and its consequences, I have mainly used the perspective of Jungian psychology, a not oft-used or understood view in the academic social sciences, because it offers the possibility of going to the essence, to the core of the question....' --Preface

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