An edition of Auf dem Weg zur vaterlosen Gesellschaft: Ideen zur Sozialpsychologie
(1963)
Society Without the Father
A contribution to social psychology
by Alexander Mitscherlich
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Auf dem Weg zur vaterlosen Gesellschaft: Ideen zur Sozialpsychologie
1973, Piper Verlag
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Auf dem Weg zur vaterlosen Gesellschaft: Ideen zur Sozialpsychologie
1971, R. Piper
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Society without the father: a contribution to social psychology
1969, Tavistock Publications
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Society Without the Father: A contribution to social psychology
1969, Harcourt Brace and World
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Table of Contents
Personal Acknowledgements
Foreword: Mitscherlich and His Uncomfortable Thoughts - by Robert Bly
Introductory: The Dynamics of Adaptation
The long years of childhood
Development of aptitudes and social environment
Adaptation, closed and open
Adaptation is not progress
Cultural adaptation: a process of selective accommodation
Four basic components of adaptation to the human environment
The limits of social tolerance
The dynamics of human adaptation
A new junction, the extension ofconsciousness
CHAPTER 2 - Adaptation and Insight
Social renunciation and instinctual surplus
Surplus aggressivity
Growth and education
A co-ordinated search
Three Uvels of education
Dialectical function of education
The acquisition of knowledge
Affective education
Social education
Composite nature of education
Affects and defence against the alien
Historical change and the drive for knowledge
Aspects of the ego
CHAPTER 3 - Insufficiency of Instinct
Evolution of the conscious
Mythology v. science
The conscious and social integration
Evolution becomes conscious of itself
The converging sciences
The protestant line
Lack of sharp outline of human roles
Roles as signals
Possessions as signals
The individual as role
Roles as the enemy of understanding
Precariousness of learnt role behaviour
Roles and masks
Transfiguration of the past
The overburdened mother
Animals and men
'Re-education'
CHAPTER 4 - The Precariousness of Moralities
The creation of identity
Satisfying renunciation
Unsatisfying renunciation
Collective structural changes in self-awareness
Problems of size
Rationalisation or fatalism?
Cultural pressure to evil
Hope as part of mans ‘openness’
CHAPTER 5 - Dynamics of the Drive
Drives and guilt
Forms of fossilization
Confluence of instincts
Hostility to instinct
Conservatisms
Terminological
Identification and moral injunctions
Ambivalence and discord
Inner objects
CHAPTER 6 - Ego and Ego Ideal
Good examples and bad effects
Doubtful ancestor cults
Conflicts of motivation
How to evade the code
The ego as energy transformer
The necessity of empathy
The passengers
A product of paternalism
Ego ideal in the open social field
The need for good counsel
The enlightened official
Fathers who can learn from their sons
Ego-strengthening education
CHAPTER 7 - The Invisible Father
Creating the behaviour repertoire
Affective and object-related alienation
Magical thought and conservatism
Authority loses its substance
Classless mass man
The father as bogy man
Conflicts of ambivalence
Roots of the social-climbing mania
Unassuaged thirst for identification and prolonged adolescence
Fatherlessness in an over-organised society
CHAPTER 8 - Obedience, Autonomy, Anarchy
Obedience to instinct
Learnt obedience
Ambivalence
After-effects of punishment
Rigidity or openness to development?
Sublimation and ego development
Repetition compulsion
Regressive idealisation
The seat of anxiety
Instillation of fear as a method of control
Obedience to the ego
Empathy and detachment
Education for insecurity, and some thoughts on ideas of political unity
Postscript: the disciplined body
CHAPTER 9 - Taboo
CHAPTER 10 - Roles
Worse than death
Searching for new collective attitudes
Group need of a boundary line
Mass regression
Managers and apparatchiks
Readiness to obey and the trend to terrorism
A disappointment
The parish-pwnp outlook
Enlightenment up-to-date
Cast-iron alibi
Transcending roles
CHAPTER 11 - Prejudices and Their Manipulation
Human rights v. prejudices
Obedience to prejudice
Pseudo-rationalism
Influencing the man in the street
Sacrifice of the intellect
From divine state to divine bureaucracy
Blows to pride and the response
Prejudice and conscience
On being confronted with prejudice about oneself
Brief apologia for gossip
CHAPTER 12 - Two Kinds of Fatherlessness
From Oedipal rivalry to sibling envy
The interested agents
Loveless childhood and lifeless old age
The detachment effect
Encroachment on territory and dissociation of instinct
Fatherlessness of the first and second degree
Chimerical ego ideal
Disappearance without trace of the Führer
Military digression
The economic significance of idols
A successful compromise
Sibling fear of ties
CHAPTER 13 - Epilogue
Emancipation
Remarks on method
Detachment v. alienation
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