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.... Disillusioned by the persistence of antisemitism in the liberal age, German-speaking Jews were the first to assert an ethnic pride based on common traits they insisted remained embedded in their minds despite outward acculturation. While the emergent discourse of psychological Jewishness helped create...

...Stefan Jonsson In Mass Psychology and Analysis of the “I” (1921), Sigmund Freud opens a new chapter in the history of crowd psychology by arguing that masses are produced through processes of identification with authoritarian leadership. This essay asks how it is that Freud's mass theory has been...

...Urs Stäheli This essay traces the figure of the leader in different approaches of crowd psychology (Gustave Le Bon and Gabriel Tarde) and psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud). It argues that the central role of the leader to the crowd, as Freud's group psychology emphasizes, is not simply given; rather...

... to be one rooted in the political, economic, and psychological analysis of individuals and the society in which they live. Many of these themes were already addressed in the twentieth century, and one thinker in particular—Ernst Bloch—made some of the same thought discoveries that are being made...

... that of the suffering outsider and linked to the psychologically therapeutic. Furthermore, based on an analysis of films that used Mahler's music from the 1960s on, Sacks demonstrates how the Mahler of popular imagination has often been a sound track to pathological torment and stages self-sacrificial transcendence...

... Traudl Junge, and the families of Nazi perpetrators. Drawing on theories of shame developed by Emmanuel Lévinas (1935) and Ruth Leys (2007), it demonstrates how these films perform a move away from guilt in the juridical or moral sense and toward shame as an exposure of the psychological and emotional...

... for the psychological state of immediacy that he recognized as a mark of modernity. While Wölfflin believed that such technologies as photography and film exacerbated this condition, he ultimately resorted to them as he developed pedagogical techniques that remain central to the discipline of art history. Copyright ©...

... of Benn’s critical engagement with the modern life sciences, and in particular with the discourses of medicine and psychology. The article focuses on Benn’s so-called Rönne novellas, written between 1914 and 1916, arguing that they record and enact the disintegration of body and subjectivity through...

... . In using that term to discuss Heartfield's work, I incorporate its cinematic connotations, in their most basic sense, into my analysis, considering how his photomontages summon their beholder both optically and psychologically. We have not entirely grasped the metaphorical operations of photomontage until...

... some of the ideas revolving around the dynamics of crowd behavior and the role of the “leader” elaborated by crowd psychology; on the other, he is influenced by the nineteenth century's philosophy of the “great man” as a crucial factor of historical and political agency. Outlining some of the inherent...

... the social and psychological context in which it manifests itself. Fest's narrative technique emphasizes the aesthetics of National Socialist politics, rendering Hitler's theatrical style palpable to a modern reader. Having been a contemporary repulsed by National Socialism, the article argues, Fest thereby...

... aesthetic more generally, I aim to draw out the implicit claims of Simmel's materialism from within his seemingly seamless commitment to psychologism. New German Critique, Inc. 2009 Georg Simmel’s Timeless Impressionism Todd Cronan...

... on the sociology of the mechanistic world picture (Franz Borkenau), the methods and tasks of an analytic social psychology (Fromm), the American political party system (Julian Gumperz), and the social situation of literature and music (Löwenthal, Theodor W. Adorno), but not a single contribution...

... . ———. 1993 . Foreword to Alexander Mitscherlich , Society without the Father: A Contribution to Social Psychology , xiii – xxi . New York : HarperPerennial . Bowlby John . 1963 . “Pathological Mourning and Childhood Mourning.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 11 : 500...

... on the Theory of Sexuality,” in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, ed. and trans. James Strachey et al., 24 vols. (London: Hogarth, 1953–74), 7:194. 7. See the writings of Robert Hooke, curator in charge of experiments at the Royal Society: “Such Experiments therefore, wherein...

... and personal relationship. While Horkheimer was always the senior figure, it is clear that Fromm influenced him, particularly on the role of psychoanalysis in social analysis. Even though Horkheimer appreciated the importance of the psychological component prior to his relationship with Fromm, he moved from...

... antifoundational realism; finally, I address the mid- and late 1930s (re)joining of Husserl’s thought to Gestalt psychology and Goldstein’s physiology by Aron Gurwitsch and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Just as the (frequently Russian and/or Jewish) émigrés educated in Germany were crucial in facilitating...

... by Lee Nan-Nan . Philosophy and Social Criticism 40 , no. 3 ( 2014 ): 326 – 38 . Adorno Theodor W. “ Sociology and Psychology (Part II) .” New Left Review , no. 47 ( 1968 ): 79 – 97 . Alloa Emmanuel . “ Visual Studies in Byzantium: A Pictorial Turn Avant la Lettre...

...-Morss Susan . 1977 . The Origin of Negative Dialectics . New York : Free . Cantril Hadley Allport Gordon W. . 1935 . The Psychology of Radio . New York : Harper . Claussen Detlev . 2010 . Adorno: One Last Genius . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press...

... Theorists, Fromm’s work is not given the attention we might expect of such a key intellectual innovator. Though major studies of the relationship between the Frankfurt School and psychoanalysis acknowledge his important role in introducing psychological theories to his colleagues, in the end they still...