On Hostility and Man-Made Stupidity

Mitscherlich, Alexander

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“…Schools can model mourning, both because we will all mourn again in the future, and because mourning opens new possibilities for living. Collective mourning can be powerful, while an inability to mourn can have negative impacts that are difficult to anticipate (Mitscherlich and Mitscherlich 1975 ; Mitscherlich 1971 ). Mourning is a powerful life skill, and schools can—for example—use literature to demonstrate the power of mourning (Doerries 2015 ) and can teach explicit strategies that allow for the processing of loss, especially ambiguous losses (Boss 2022 ).…”

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Rethinking the Purposes of Schooling in a Global Pandemic: From Learning Loss to a Renewed Appreciation for Mourning and Human Excellence

Frank

2022

Stud Philos Educ

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A main goal of this paper is to complicate “learning loss” as the only, or even the main, thing schools should be concerned about as they respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. While schools have a responsibility to make sure students who are enrolled in school are learning, this cannot come at the cost of ignoring the other substantial losses students are also contending with. Following the work of Jonathan Lear, I make the case that schools should engage students in a process of learning how to mourn for their individual and our collective losses, while also considering ways that school can move beyond narrow conceptions of the purposes of school and to a deeper appreciation for the ways that an education can promote human excellence. As this pandemic wears on, it becomes harder and harder to do anything but endure. One goal of this paper is to serve as a reminder that schools can do more than endure: they can envision new possibilities for schooling that promote conceptions of wellbeing that go beyond fear of learning loss.

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Rethinking the Purposes of Schooling in a Global Pandemic: From Learning Loss to a Renewed Appreciation for Mourning and Human Excellence

Frank

2022

Stud Philos Educ

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“…I believe that a psychodynamic explanation of social phenomena is highly relevant and adds another dimension to the understanding of the issues at hand. Mitscherlich (1971) wrote an important article outlining the basis for the psychoanalytic approach to examining societal issues. He maintained that there were three basic processes that cause havoc in the relationships among peoples: (a) the process whereby one’s own affects are displaced onto others, be they individuals or groups (we do not hate them, they hate us); (b) the process of projecting inner conflicts (we are not lawless, they are); and (c) the process of denial (we are virtuous, God-fearing people of obvious good will).…”

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Eastern European militant nationalism: Some causes and measures to counteract it.

Pick¹

1997

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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It is hypothesized that there are causes of militant nationalism specific to the historical time and region. Specifically, 4 hypotheses are offered: (a) Because nationalism was virtually outlawed under communism, it went underground, and in the former satellite nations it emerged from something like a deep freeze reconstituted in its 1940s form; (b) because communist ideology was paranoid, the stage was set for a new content to fit into the same mold, and militant nationalism happened to be a beautiful fit; (c) the fall of communism brought about an identity crisis in many individuals, and a chauvinistic national identity filled the vacuum; and (d) a high incidence of victimization in the region's population was also conducive to making militant nationalism attractive. The hypotheses are supported by examples. Finally, some psychoeducational models are presented, which are designed to counteract prejudice and thereby extreme nationalism, along with some economic models that foster cross-national cooperation.

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All Is Not Sexuality That Looks Like It

Herzog

2018

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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. They have prompted me to read a whole range of clarifying texts-from Jacques Derrida's reflections on Friedrich Nietzsche to the work of classicist James Davidson on Michel Foucault and George Devereux (as well as more writings by Devereux) to historian Chris Waters's recovery of Edward Glover, and from literary scholar Shoshana Felman's brilliant Jacques Lacan-inspired rescue operation for psychoanalytic textual interpretation (in the special issue of Yale French Studies she edited in 1977) to Charles Shepherdson's turn-of-the-millennium revisionist take on Lacan and Foucault in Vital Signs. They have prompted me, too, to reconsider key texts by Sigmund Freud. And I am glad that the interlocutors challenge me with questions. These include: why the Left abandoned psychoanalysis (Robcis); how I have come to think about practices and desires and the relationships between "the sexual" and other realms of human existence (Shepard and Stewart-Steinberg, each in their own way); how a more integrated and comprehensive master narrative of psychoanalysis might be written, connecting the first and second halves of the twentieth century (Shapira); and how to delve more deeply into the role of analysands in shaping what counts as psychoanalysis (Kunzel).It will surprise no one to hear that "psychoanalysis" is nowadays an embattled project. On the one hand, we find elaborate grouplets of connoisseurs speaking an obscure language, often disdainful of other grouplets, while vigilantly guarding the guild's history against ignorant outsiders. On the other hand, in many departments of psychology or psychiatry, the name Freud merits at best a raised eyebrow. Freud is rarely required reading (except perhaps in a literary-or cultural-studies classroom). We are now in the world of pharmaceuticals and of neuroscience, and psychoanalysis is declared thoroughly outmoded. Why would a historian-or any politically engaged person-study the conceptual intricacies 1 terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi

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On Hostility and Man-Made Stupidity

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Rethinking the Purposes of Schooling in a Global Pandemic: From Learning Loss to a Renewed Appreciation for Mourning and Human Excellence

Rethinking the Purposes of Schooling in a Global Pandemic: From Learning Loss to a Renewed Appreciation for Mourning and Human Excellence

Eastern European militant nationalism: Some causes and measures to counteract it.

All Is Not Sexuality That Looks Like It

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