Genocide Principle

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Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Sociology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

3 169 kr

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This book explores how and why genocide is a trans-cultural and trans-historical phenomenon, reflects the unconscious processes that drive human nature, and draws broadly on psychoanalytic theory, and on social science and philosophical perspectives.Using Bass’s own research on genocide and his considerable clinical psychoanalytic experience, the book examines what it is within us that leads us to see some people or groups as ‘other’, what we project on to these groups, how we can come to dehumanise them, and how mass murder can become a purportedly ethical imperative. Using real-life examples, it explores the question of what genocide says about us individually and collectively, how apparently ‘normal’ people can take part in genocide.Tackling one of the most important topics of our time, this is key reading for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, and for philosophers, social scientists, and psychologists.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor156
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032913674

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“Grounded in erudite historical research, Alan Bass’ psychoanalytic reflections on genocide pose the haunting question if the predilection for mass violence is a manifestation of human nature. Analyzing the unconscious logic of genocide, he demonstrates with compelling theoretical rigor why we need psychoanalysis to understand that genocide presupposes a fetish for purity and fear of contamination and satisfies an unconscious need. This is an urgent and indispensable book in our era of genocidal violence and the emergence of new forms of racism, deportations, and warfare across the globe.” Gabriele M. Schwab is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Irvine with appointments in Comparative Literature and Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Constance in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis from the New Center for Psychoanalysis in LA in 2009. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Heisenberg Fellowship, her work ranges across critical theory, psychoanalysis, trauma studies, ecology, anthropology, and 20th- and 21st century comparative literatures. Monographs in English include Subjects Without Selves (1994); The Mirror and the Killer-Queen (1996); Haunting Legacies (2010); Imaginary Ethnographies (2012.Winner of the 2014 Choice Award for Best Academic Book); Radioactive Ghosts (2020); Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times (2023) She is completing a new book titled Haunted Ecologies and is working on a new project on Transspecies Imaginaries.“Alan Bass’ book has provided us with a valuable tool for comprehending the incomprehensible “banality of genocide”. Drawing on a sophisticated psychoanalytic and philosophical knowledge, he offers a subtle analysis of what is the most hyperbolic implementation of human cruelty.” Sergio Benvenuto, psychoanalyst and philosopher, has been a member of the Italian Council of Scientific Research (Rome). He founded and edited the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and he is president of Elvio Fachinelli Institute in Italy. He has authored several books in different languages; his most recent is Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater (Routledge).