War Is Not Inevitable : On the Psychology of War and Aggression.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- References -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- I: FREUD'S ANSWER TO EINSTEIN WAS WRONG -- 1 The Problem with Freud's Answer to Einstein's "Why War?" -- Reflecting on the 1932 Einstein-Freud Correspondence -- Notes -- 2 Why I Say Freud's Answer Was "Wrong" -- How I Came to Doubt the Death-Instinct Basis of Aggression -- The Challenge to the then-Current Theory of Aggression -- Developing an Alternative Psychoanalytic Theory of Aggression -- The Outcome (for this Investigator) of Continuing Longitudinal Observation -- Brief Review of Selected Psychoanalysis-Relevant Models of Aggression -- Is the Death-Instinct-Based Aggression Theory Wrong? -- What Is the Comparative Heuristic Value of Each Theory? -- Where to From Here? -- Notes -- II: CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN CONFLICT -- 3 Human Narcissism -- Comments Following on Freud's Thoughts about Narcissism -- Primary Narcissism -- The Altriciality of the Human Infant -- From Primary Narcissism to Secondary Narcissism -- The Investment of Emotional Value (Libido) in Others -- Secondary Narcissism -- Injury to Narcissism -- Narcissism Is a Living Dynamic of a "Group" as It Is of an "Individual" -- Notes -- 4 Pathways from Narcissism to Human Conflict -- The Cyclicity of Hyper-Narcissism and Narcissistic Injury in Human Conflict -- Narcissism Generates and Narcissism Destroys -- The Necessary and Precarious Condition of Narcissism in Humans -- Notes -- 5 Conflict-Causing Human Reactivities -- Homo sapiens Begins Life in Utter Helplessness and Dependence -- The Need for Power -- Greed -- Libidinal Insufficiency Syndrome -- Envy -- The Need to Blame Others -- The Need for Enemies -- Revenge -- Notes -- III: REACTIVITIES, EXPLANATIONS, AND RATIONALIZATIONS -- 6 Psychological Determinants of Prejudice.

A Model of Prejudice -- From Correlations of Child Rearing and Aggression Profiles to the Study of Prejudice -- Normal Developmental Factors that Make Us All Prejudiced -- The Large Dilemma Created in the Child by His Ambivalence toward His Parents -- The Hostilification of Benign Prejudice -- Knowing Key Factors that Lead to Malignant Prejudice Can Inform Strategies toward Its Prevention -- There are Ways to Lessen the Generation of Hostile Destructiveness in Humans -- Society Can Helpfully Intervene -- Large Group Traumas Often become Key Generators of Malignant Prejudice -- Some Group Processes that Foster Hostile and Malignant Prejudice -- Key Obstacles that Stand in Our Way -- Notes -- 7 Post-Conflict Human Reactivities -- Critical Dynamics of Post-Conflict Reactivities -- World War I -- World War II -- Notes -- 8 Explanations and Rationalizations -- Chris Hedges's "War . . . Gives Us Meaning" -- Franco Fornari's The Psychoanalysis of War -- Notes -- IV: WHAT WE CAN DO: DIRECTIONS OLD AND NEW -- 9 What We Can Do-Part One -- Are We Better Off than We Were? -- We Create the Conflicts -- We are the Only Ones Who Can Solve Them Constructively -- Our Psychological Life Is Full of Challenges -- We Need Psychological Defenses to Cope with Them -- Toward Taming Human Destructiveness and Reducing Human Conflict -- Among Strategies Old and New -- Genocide -- A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power -- David A. Hamburg's Preventing Genocide -- Notes -- 10 What We Can Do-Part Two -- Among Promising Methods We Need to Try -- What Are "Ordinary/Average" People? -- Is a Person Who Commits Crimes Ordinary? -- The Antisocialization of Large Groups -- Extremist Ideology Antisocialized the Unquestioningly Obedient Germans -- We Need Formal Parenting Education -- Parents and Their Children Benefit from Formal Parenting Education -- Where Do We Go from Here?.

Education for Psychosocial Growth-Promoting Parenting -- Notes -- Addendum -- A Guide for Those Perplexed in Reading Beyond the Pleasure Principle -- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

In this book, author Henri Parens discusses and documents the core psychodynamics that lead groups to war. Detailing some of the psychodynamics that led from World War I to World War II and their respective aftermath, Parens addresses how major factors that gave rise to these wars must, can, and have been counteracted.

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