Hypocrisy Unmasked (eBook)

Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity

Ronald C. Naso (Autor)

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2010
236 Seiten
Jason Aronson, Inc. (Verlag)
9780765706799 (ISBN)

Infos

Hypocrisy Unmasked aims more broadly to situate the phenomenon of hypocrisy within a postmodern framework, explaining it as a compromise fashioned by an embodied agent struggling to adapt and flourish amid moral ambiguity and uncertainty. Because morality ultimately is subjective, hypocrisy can no longer be conceptualized as an objective property of behavior or an empirical consequence divorced from the belief systems in which the agent is embedded. For this reason, this book argues that hypocrisy is neither inherently vicious nor virtuous. Instead, it is more usefully regarded as a condition of our humanity, one that speaks deeply to the conflicts and competing interests that define who we are.

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Hypocrisy Unmasked explores the motives, meanings, and mechanisms of hypocrisy, challenging two principal psychoanalytic assumptions: First, that hypocrisy expresses deviant, uncontrollable impulses or follows exclusively from superego weakness; and second, that it can be understood solely in terms of intrapsychic factors without reference to the influences of the field. Ronald C. Naso argues that each of these assumptions devolve into criticisms rather than explanations and demonstrates that hypocrisy represents a compromise among intrapsychic, interpersonal, situational, and cultural/linguistic forces in an individual life. Hypocrisy Unmasked accords a healthy respect to the hypocrite's existentiality, including variables like opportunity and chance, and focuses on situations where the hypocrite's desires differ from those of others and on the moral principles that count in decision-making rather than how they are subsequently rationalized. Ultimately, hypocrisy exposes the ineradicable moral ambiguity of the human condition and the irreconcilability of desires and obligations.

Autor

Ronald C. Naso, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been practicing psychotherapy and conducting neuropsychological evaluations for over twenty years. He is currently on the consulting faculty of the Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut, where he teaches and supervises in the Doctoral Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship programs.

Inhalt

Part 1 PrefacePart 2 IntroductionPart 3 Part I: Topographies of TransgressionChapter 4 Chapter 1: The Paradox of HypocrisyChapter 5 Chapter 2: The Call of ConscienceChapter 6 Chapter 3: Perversion and Moral ReckoningPart 7 Part II: The Ethics of InauthenticityChapter 8 Chapter 4: Compromises of IntegrityChapter 9 Chapter 5: Beneath the MaskChapter 10 Chapter 6: Youthful IndiscretionsPart 11 Part III: From Hypocrisy to Moral AmbiguityChapter 12 Chapter 7: Dissociation as Self-DeceptionChapter 13 Chapter 8: Multiplicity and Moral AmbiguityChapter 14 ConclusionPart 15 Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.3.2010
• Reihe/Serie: New Imago
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
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• ISBN-13: 9780765706799 / 9780765706799