Societal Sadomasochism

James Redford, The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything: And Other Selected Works (Chișinău, Moldova: Eliva Press, 2021), ISBN: 1636482775, pp. 264-267

4 Pages Posted: 11 Jul 2023

Date Written: July 4, 2021

Abstract

One cannot understand the extreme schizophrenia and sadomasochistic psychopathy of mankind--and hence the appeal that etatism holds for many--without incorporating the crucial insight provided by psychologist Julian Jaynes in his 1976 monograph The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. And here I'm not speaking of so-called "aberrant" human psychology, but rather simply standard human psychology that all humans are born with due to natural evolution.

Keywords: evolutionary psychology, Julian Jaynes, Lloyd deMause, Marvin Minsky, Sadism, Masochism, sadomasochism, schizophrenia, psychopathy, sociopathy, society, politics

JEL Classification: Z13

Suggested Citation

Redford, James, Societal Sadomasochism (July 4, 2021). James Redford, The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything: And Other Selected Works (Chișinău, Moldova: Eliva Press, 2021), ISBN: 1636482775, pp. 264-267, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4500656 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4500656

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