Political Correctness and the Destruction of Social Order Chronicling the Rise of the Pristine Self /

• Main Author: Schwartz, Howard S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychoanalysis.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Emotions.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Emotion.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book develops a psychoanalytic theory of political correctness and the pristine self, which is defined as a self touched by nothing but love. It explores the damage that political correctness can do to social order. Applications include the breakdown of social capital, the financial crisis, and...