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Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves, Part I

Medieval alchemist working in his laboratory Orientation Preliminary social psychology questions and answers People’s identity can be made sense of as existing in the cross-fire between our biological, psychological and social lives. This helps us to understand the differences between someone’s temperament, personality and self. Among social psychologists such as George Herbert Mead, the species […]
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Authoritarian Sadism in U.S. “Foreign Policy” (Part 2)
In the first part of this paper, Authoritarian Sadism in U.S. “Foreign Policy” (Part 1), Dissident Voice, July 25, 2023, I introduced some psychoanalytic concepts and explained their application in revealing the latent motivations of high-ranking policy-makers in recent U.S. presidential administrations. This approach was long ago studied by the eminent political scientist Harold Lasswell, […]