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Hypocrisy Unmasked: Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity

Hypocrisy Unmasked: Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity - New Imago : Series in Theoretical, Clinical, and Applied Psychoanalysis

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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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780765706775
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
Imprint: Jason Aronson
Pub date:
DEWEY: 155.92
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 221
Weight: 498g
Height: 241mm
Width: 161mm
Spine width: 22mm