This paper focuses on ethnic, national, religious and ideological large groups.
Large-group identity refers to persistent sameness of tens, hundreds of
thousands or millions of individuals, most of whom will never meet during their
lifetimes. Within the interactions of large groups, ‘otherness’ is very powerful
and is both desirable and frightening. We can enjoy human diversity when we are
not pre... hiện toàn bộ
Peter Redman, Mechthild Bereswill, Christine Morgenroth
Alfred Lorenzer, a major figure in post-World War II German intellectual debate,
is little known in the Anglophone world. As well as supplying biographical
details, this short Introduction to the special issue on Lorenzer's work
sketches the nature of his debt to Frankfurt School critical theory, highlights
his attempt to place psychoanalysis on a materialist footing, and provides an
overview of t... hiện toàn bộ