Download This PaperSocietal 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
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