Ethics of evil : psychoanalytic investigations / edited by Ronald C. Naso and Jon Mills.

COVER -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction: Moralising evil -- PART I HOW OUGHT WE TO LIVE -- CHAPTER ONE On the brink of extinction -- CHAPTER TWO The antinomy of morality in Freud -- CHAPTER THREE The psychology of evil -- PART II CLINICAL APPLICATIONS -- CHAPTER FOUR The intergenerational transmission of the catastrophic effects of real world history expressed through the analytic subject -- CHAPTER FIVE For the love of money: dissociation, crime, and the challenges of ethical life -- PART III APPLIED STUDIES -- CHAPTER SIX Past imperfect: historical trauma and its transmission -- CHAPTER SEVEN The lie of the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt's fatal flaw -- INDEX.

"In today's world where every form of transgression enjoys a psychological motive and rational justification, psychoanalysis stands alone in its ability to uncover the hidden motives that inform individual and social collective behaviour. Both in theory and practice, it bears witness to the impact of anonymity on the potential for perpetration, especially when others are experienced as faceless, disposable objects whose otherness is, at bottom, but a projection, displacement, and denial of our own interiority-in short, the evil within. In keeping with this perspective, Ethics of Evil rejects facile rationalizations of violence; it also rejects the idea that evil, as a concept, is inscrutable or animated by demonic forces. Instead, it evaluates the moral framework in which evil is situated, providing a descriptive understanding of it as a plurality and a depth psychological perspective on the threat it poses for our well-being and ways of life. In so doing, it also fashions and articulates an ethical stance that recognizes the intrinsic link between human freedom and the potential for evil. The essays collected in Ethics of Evil argue that moralizing evil is one of the most important agendas of our time.Contributors: Robin McCoy Brooks, Aner Govrin, Henry Zvi Lothane, Dan Merkur, Jon Mills, Ronald C. Naso, and Robert Prince."--Provided by publisher.

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