Affiliation vs. Alienation Gerson, Sam
Psychoanalytic dialogues,
05/03/2024, Letnik:
34, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Contemporary psychoanalytic thinking has been marked by a "social turn" - a shift in emphasis from internal and endogenous process to those that prioritize the social and political context in which ...psychological life is shaped. In this discussion of Rozmarin's work, the concept of "belonging" is considered as a bridge between the individual and the community. The entities to which one belongs and the dynamics that underline the choices attendant to belonging are considered as constituents of both identity and unconscious processes. An individual's unconscious is viewed as nested within the broader historical and social configurations of life and structured by these forces. Reference is made to the work of Erich Fromm and Erik Erikson as aides in understanding the power of the social to shape both identity formation and social affiliation. The dynamics of conflict between affiliation and alienation are considered as a constituent of contemporary movement toward authoritarian political structures.
Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans' trust in government
has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. In At War
with Government , the political scientists Amy Fried and
Douglas B. ...Harris reveal that this trend is no accident. Although
distrust of authority is deeply rooted in American culture, it is
fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it. Since the
postwar era conservative leaders have deliberately and
strategically undermined faith in the political system for partisan
aims. Fried and Harris detail how conservatives have sown distrust
to build organizations, win elections, shift power toward
institutions that they control, and secure policy victories. They
trace this strategy from the Nixon and Reagan years through
Gingrich's Contract with America, the Tea Party, and Donald Trump's
rise and presidency. Conservatives have promoted a political
identity opposed to domestic state action, used racial messages to
undermine unity, and cultivated cynicism to build and bolster
coalitions. Once in power, they have defunded public services
unless they help their constituencies and rolled back regulations,
perversely proving the failure of government. Fried and Harris draw
on archival sources to document how conservative elites have
strategized behind the scenes. With a powerful diagnosis of our
polarized era, At War with Government also proposes how we
might rebuild trust in government by countering the strategies
conservatives have used to weaken it.
Recent developments in existential authenticity and psychoanalytic alienation have challenged the traditional account of tourism’s contribution to authenticity. To evaluate these distinct accounts ...and advance authenticity scholarship, we examined the changes in authenticity and alienation from tourism to routine life, using a longitudinal design. The results suggest that authenticity decreased, self-alienation increased, and acceptance of external influences declined after touring. This implies that the traditional account of existential authenticity still holds; yet, there is a need to recognize the importance of autonomous decisions to authenticity fulfilment, and the effect does not last long. Therefore, the latest developments in existential authenticity and psychoanalytic alienation complement and refine traditional accounts. Overall, this study offers a parsimonious and direct evidence of tourism’s contribution to authenticity. The theoretical implications to authenticity, transformation, and wellbeing scholarship are also discussed.
The strategy of designing the covers of international magazines emerges as one of the expressive means that reflect the emotional and expressive aspects and employ them according to the spatial ...transformations and the struggles of globalization to usurp the intellectual, cultural, value and civilizational essence of man, which makes him vulnerable to psychological and spiritual alienation and becomes the abstract meaning of identity and culture, and the empowerment of cultural invasion and the control of consumer thought The contemporary globalist on the largest area and the globalization of the peoples of the world, and the study came in the first chapter: the general framework that includes the problem of the research to raise in our mind the following question: (What is the alienation of the visual in the design of the covers of international magazines?), The importance of the research lies in the study of the features of cultural, religious, political and social expression In the covers of contemporary international magazines and making their global covers a visual message related to cultures and values of authenticity and civilizational race at the global level. The aim of the study was to identify visual usurpation in the covers of international magazines. Alienation through the design idea) with indicators, and the third chapter included procedures The research and how to choose the research community and analyze sample forms, and the most important conclusions:
1- International magazines raise topics that raise controversy towards political, cultural, religious, moral and aesthetic alienation, through design elements as visual alienation that raises ideas and questions in the imagination of the recipient and the reader.2- The covers of international magazines seek to be a means of visually alienating their design content by supporting different aspects that contribute to strengthening the material presented towards a self-visual culture that competes with globalized perspectives.
Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety and Accountability focuses on the complexity of the challenges facing judges, lawyers, legislators, and mental health professionals in ...developing safe and effective strategies for resolving custody disputes. Jaffe, Lemon, and Poisson integrate the most recent clinical and legal issues in the field in considering the prevalence of divorce and domestic violence as well as the relevance of domestic violence in custody disputes. The authors outline the essential differences between custody disputes with and without allegations and findings of domestic violence, and the different analysis and distinct interventions by judges, policymakers, and mental health professionals necessary in domestic violence cases.
Objective
A sense of meaning in life (MIL) is thought to help protect people against experiencing explicit anxiety about death. However, the experience of meaning is complex and subjective and may ...relate to death anxiety in nuanced ways. We examine how self‐alienation—a feeling of not knowing/being disconnected from one's self—might moderate the relationship between MIL and death anxiety.
Method
Across five studies, we tested the hypothesis that MIL would negatively predict death anxiety more strongly for people relatively low in self‐alienation. These studies were similar in design and included exploratory, confirmatory, and pre‐registered tests.
Results
A meta‐regression across our five studies (N = 2001) provided clear evidence that MIL was most strongly associated with lower death anxiety at low self‐alienation. We also observed that MIL was positively associated with death anxiety at high self‐alienation. These effects were consistent in direction but inconsistent in strength.
Conclusions
We interpreted these results as evidence that MIL is existentially protective when experienced in combination with a relatively strong, clear, and connected sense of self. In contrast, MIL may be existentially problematic when people feel relatively unaware and disconnected from themselves. These findings align with aspects of terror management theory and highlight the potentially complex ways that MIL might relate to death anxiety.
In police reform circles, many scholars and policymakers diagnose the frayed relationship between police forces and the communities they serve as a problem of illegitimacy, or the idea that people ...lack confidence in the police and thus are unlikely to comply or cooperate with them. The core proposal emanating from this illegitimacy diagnosis is procedural justice, a concept that emphasizes police officers' obligation to treat people with dignity and respect, behave in a neutral, nonbiased way, exhibit an intention to help, and give them voice to express themselves and their needs, largely in the context of police stops. This Essay argues that legitimacy theory offers an incomplete diagnosis of the policing crisis, and thus de-emphasizes deeper structural, group-centered approaches to the problem of policing. The existing police regulatory regime encourages large swaths of American society to see themselves as existing within the law's aegis but outside its protection. This Essay critiques the reliance of police decision makers on a simplified version of legitimacy and procedural justice theory. It aims to expand the predominant understanding of police mistrust among African Americans and the poor, proposing that legal estrangement offers a better lens through which scholars and policymakers can understand and respond to the current problems of policing. Legal estrangement is a theory of detachment and eventual alienation from the law's enforcers, and it reflects the intuition among many people in poor communities of color that the law operates to exclude them from society. Building on the concepts of legal cynicism and anomie in sociology, the concept of legal estrangement provides a way of understanding the deep concerns that motivate today's police reform movement and points toward structural approaches to reforming policing.
Artificial intelligence (AI) helps companies offer important benefits to consumers, such as health monitoring with wearable devices, advice with recommender systems, peace of mind with smart ...household products, and convenience with voice-activated virtual assistants. However, although AI can be seen as a neutral tool to be evaluated on efficiency and accuracy, this approach does not consider the social and individual challenges that can occur when AI is deployed. This research aims to bridge these two perspectives: on one side, the authors acknowledge the value that embedding AI technology into products and services can provide to consumers. On the other side, the authors build on and integrate sociological and psychological scholarship to examine some of the costs consumers experience in their interactions with AI. In doing so, the authors identify four types of consumer experiences with AI: (1) data capture, (2) classification, (3) delegation, and (4) social. This approach allows the authors to discuss policy and managerial avenues to address the ways in which consumers may fail to experience value in organizations’ investments into AI and to lay out an agenda for future research.
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