Considering love: Implications for critical political psychology

Malherbe, Nick

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“…Hate, we might then say, is not an emotion. Like love (see Malherbe, 2021; Oliver, 2001), hate is a relational disposition that, once taken up, informs how one connects to and acts in the world (see Long, 2021). Ahmed (2013) explains that hate does not simply exist within people.…”

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“…Hateful feelings need not predominate over our lives, even if they cannot be entirely eradicated. When gratifying experiences outnumber frustrating ones (see Frosh, 1999), we can advance love as a dispositional capacity to see to the interconnected needs of the self and others (Malherbe, 2021; Oliver, 2001). Just as we can project hatred onto the outer world (a world which may, itself, foster hatred), we can also project love outwards (Butler, 2020; Frosh, 1999).…”

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“…In this article, I am concerned with hate as a psychopolitical problem, that is, a psychological phenomenon that, if we are to take it seriously within progressive movements, must be understood, engaged, and read through a political register (see Malherbe, 2021). Specifically, I consider what hate means for those who seek to put the discipline of psychology to work for a progressive political agenda (i.e., liberation psychology; see Burton & Guzzo, 2020;Martín-Baro ´, 1994;Montero et al, 2017).…”

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Problems of hate and emancipation: Some considerations for liberation psychology.

Malherbe¹

2024

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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Hatred, understood as a kind of negative attachment, circulates in different ways within a global capitalist economy premised on the degradation and expropriation of lives, labors, and lands. At the same time, psychoanalysis shows that hateful instincts are often repressed or worked through in an attempt to develop loving identifications and attachments. Thus, love functions together with hate in a conflictual dialectic. Although we cannot trust hatred, hate remains a part of human subjectivity. This somewhat curious position that hate occupies raises important questions for activists committed to building emancipatory political power. On the one hand, hateful annihilation cannot be relied on as a basis for progressive politics, yet on the other hand, piously refusing to engage with hatred in progressive politics is likely to result in the repression of hate, and thus the emboldening of a hateful unconscious. In this article, I interrogate the place of hate in social movements, drawing from the liberation psychology paradigm to do so. Specifically, I consider what hate might mean for psychological work concerned with recovering historiographical fragments, interrogating comradeship, and embracing radical democracy. It is because hate is so dangerous that we must take seriously its influence on emancipatory political programmes committed to opposing—and, indeed, hating—capitalism’s systematised hatred.

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Problems of hate and emancipation: Some considerations for liberation psychology.

Malherbe¹

2024

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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“…(Hafiz, 1999, p. 154) To be poured out as a love sacrifice, to be fully drunk in the love of human fellowship, is the essence of life in mystical poetry. The central importance of love to human society and being is also a concept that is seen in critical psychology (Butler, 2020;Malherbe, 2021). As St. John states, "Oh my life, in thee I live" (St. John of the Cross, 2007b, p. 263).…”

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“…The typology of the lover in mystical poetry depicts a view of life that is based in faith, love, and valuing the human community in giving and caring relationships. The value placed on love appears in critical psychology literature, particularly LP, where the importance of relationality as an onto-epistemic structure is recurring (Butler, 2020; Malherbe, 2021; Mohr, 2019). Mystical poetry shows that LP’s ontology of the self where love breaks down separation from others is not a modern theory, emerging in a naive and romantic fantasy, but a primordial typology of the essence of the good human life.…”

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Mystical poetry and the ontology of the self in liberation psychology.

Mohr¹

2023

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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The recurring images of the abandonment of the self to love of the Divine in mystical poetry, and by extension other people, have implications for understanding the historical precedent of the modern ontology of the self in liberation psychology (LP). Starting from roots in liberation theology, LP theorizes an ontology of the self that centers selfless giving and self-sacrifice out of love for others. The ecstatic poetry of St. John of the Cross in Christianity and Hafiz’s poetry in Islam both contain recurring and powerful images of the typology of the lover of the Divine as the highest and noblest possibility for human beings. Love of self and others is a natural outflowing of the relationship to the Divine. Mystical poetry supports the idea that love can break down separations between self, others, and God, not a naive and romantic fantasy of the possibilities of human beings, but a primordial typology of the essence of the good human life, and holds promise as a healing modality in mental health settings.

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Resisting the Capitalist Political Project

Malherbe

2022

For an Anti-Capitalist Psychology of Community

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Considering love: Implications for critical political psychology

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Problems of hate and emancipation: Some considerations for liberation psychology.

Problems of hate and emancipation: Some considerations for liberation psychology.

Mystical poetry and the ontology of the self in liberation psychology.

Resisting the Capitalist Political Project

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