The Feeling of Certainty Psychosocial Perspectives on Identity and Difference /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mintchev, Nikolay (Editor), Hinshelwood, R. D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Studies in the Psychosocial
• Subjects: Psychology.; Political sociology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Personality and Social Psychology.; Self and Identity.; Political Sociology.; Sociology of Racism.

This book explores the concept of certainty, a term which is widely used in everyday language to designate a psychological experience or feeling but is rarely considered controversial or politically charged. The Feeling of Certainty argues that conversely this most ordinary of feelings plays a key r...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Feeling of Certainty, Towards a Psychosocial Approach
• 2. The Mentality of Conviction: Feeling Certain and the Search for Truth
• 3. What is Subjectivity and How Can We Study it Empirically? Understanding The Feeling of Certainty through Psychoanalysis and Ethnography
• 4. Haunted by Uncertain Refrains
• 5. Internal Racism: Belief in the Racist Mindset
• 6. Being Racist: The Certainty of a Pathological Organisation of the Personality
• 7. Numinosity and Terror: Jung’s Psychological Revision of Otto as an Aid to Engaging Religious Fundamentalism
• 8. “Instead of Trying to Help You, They Try To Screw You”: The Feeling of Certainty and the Mexican-origin Border Patrol Agents
• 9. Gender Certainty as a Defence: Oedipal Conflict in Wartime Sexual Violence
• 10. The Primitive Container of Fascism: Masculine Anxieties and Defences in Times of Trauma and Uncertainty.- 11. Collective Identities, Breivik and the National Container.