| Hypocrisy Unmasked: Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity Contributor(s): Naso, Ronald C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0765706776 ISBN-13: 9780765706775 Publisher: Jason Aronson OUR PRICE: $116.82 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Mental Health - Psychology | Clinical Psychology |
| Dewey: 155.92 |
| LCCN: 2009050678 |
| Series: New Imago: Series in Theoretical, Clinical, and Applied Psychoanalysis |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |