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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Nature of Political Correctness
• The Pristine Self and the Psychodynamics of the Anti-Bullying Movement
• Putnam's Paradox: Diversity, Destruction of Community, and Anti-oedipal Psychology
• Anti-oedipal dynamics in the sub-prime loan debacle: The case of a study by the Boston Federal Reserve Bank
• The British Riots of 2011
• Reality and Truth in the Politically Correct Organization: The Case of the Dan Rather Memo Debacle at CBS News
• What was the Occupy Wall Street Protest a Protest of?
• Conclusion: Finessing The Existential Question.