The Defiance of Global Commitment : A Complex Social Psychology (Paperback)

Acknowledgement Introduction COMMITMENT DEFIANCE CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS THE DEFIANCE OF GLOBAL COMMITMENT A Complex Social Psychology SECTION 1: Oceanic Feeling and the Pursuit of Happiness Chapter 1, Oceanic Commitment and the Global: Fostering a Complex Systems View of the World OCEANIC FEELING AN ARCHEOLOGY OF MIND EMBRACING A COMPLEX SYSTEMS VIEW Chapter 2: We Are Condemned to Seek Happiness What is Happiness? OUR ASSESSMENT OF FREUD’S ARGUMENT CIVILIZATION, REALITY AND HAPPINESS Liberal Society and the Problem of Religion SECTION II: Globalization: A Complex Social Psychology A NOTE ON METHOD Cataloguing the Social Psychology of Globalization Chapter 3, The Impossible Promise of Globalization: Globalization and Fear of the Global THE PROBLEM OF GLOBALIZATION POST-INDUSTRIALIZATION THE WORLD CAPITALIST SYSTEM Fear of the Global: A Complex Social Psychology Back to Wallerstein THE COMPLEXITIES OF GLOBALIZATION Globalists Advocating for Global Civic Society GLOBAL NETWORK SOCIETY Network Society Defined GLOBALIZATION’S IMPOSSIBLE PROMISE Chapter 4, The Impossible Promise of Globalization: Nostalgic Retreat and the Importance of Society THE EVOLUTIONARY NECESSITY OF SOCIETY We, the Prosthetic Gods of Globalization Freud’s Functionalist Error Introduction to Sociology, 101 THE CALL OF NOSTALGIC PRIMITIVISM Advocating for Global Civil Society ? Continued The Nostalgic Regress of Progress The Nostalgia of Eco-Primitivism The Nostalgia of Purity The Nostalgia of Resentment THE RESTRICTION OF HUMAN INSTINCT SECTION III: Idstincts & Drives/Repression & Resistance Chapter 5, Idstincts and Drives: An Embodied-Mind Approach OUR APPROACH TO THEORY INSTINCTS AND DRIVES A Bit of Hermeneutics Psychoanalysis in a Nutshell Instincts or Drives? Instincts Defined Drives Are (Not) Instincts? Our Complex Embodied-Minds Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology: A Critique IDSTINCTS AND SOCIETAL DRIVES Emotional Instincts and the Mammalian Brain CONCLUSION Mind, Self and Societal Drives Chapter 6, Repression and Resistance: A Complex Social Psychology of Global Power On Any Given Sunday REPRESSION Freud’s Tripartite Model of Global Defiance Id-Ego-Superego or Eros-Thanatos? Everything Is (NOT) Repression Anxiety and Global Fear: A Case Study RESISTANCE AND DEFIANCE A GLOBAL MODEL OF RESISTANCE SOCIAL PROBLEMS AS COMPLEX SYSTEMS The Complex Global Web Domains and Regimes Ten Domains of Complex Global Web Global Social Psychological Problems CONCLUSION SECTION IV: Sex, Aggression, & Death Our Research Questions Chapter 7, Sex, Sexuality, & Gender A BIT OF HERMENEUTICS DEFINING OUR TERMS FREUD’S PATRIARCHAL HETEROSEXIS CRITIQUING FREUD The Conjugal Family Heterosexual Repression LGBTQI Sexual Repression Summary OVERCOMING PATRIACHAL HETEROSEXISM Global Report Card Chapter 8, Aggression, Otherness & Death THE RING OF MALICE A BIT OF HERMENEUTICS ON AGGRESSION Understanding Global Otherness Aggression Defined The Death Instinct Globalist Aggression ? Continued ADDRESSING AGGRESSION Global Report Card Chapter 9, The Global Strong Arms Versus Global Civil Society PRECIS DE NOS RECHERCHES Section I Section II: Section III: Section IV: THE TRIPARTITE PROBLEM THE GLOBAL STRONGARMS What Gives Rise to the Global Strongarms? The Defiance of the Global Strongarms THE ADJACENT POSSIBLE