
Hypocrisy Unmasked : Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity.
Title:
Hypocrisy Unmasked : Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity.
Author:
Naso, Ronald C.
ISBN:
9780765706799
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (197 pages)
Series:
New Imago
Contents:
Hypocrisy Unmasked -- New Imago: Series in Theoretical, Clinical, and Applied Psychoanalysis -- Hypocrisy Unmasked -- Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity -- Ronald C. Naso, Ph.D. -- Contents -- Preface -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- Introduction -- CAVEAT AUDITOR -- MASK AND METAPHOR -- OVERVIEW -- NOTES -- I -- TOPOGRAPHIES OF TRANSGRESSION -- 1 -- The Paradox of Hypocrisy -- WHAT IS MORAL HYPOCRISY? -- PERVERSION AND HYPOCRISY -- RESEARCH ON MORAL HYPOCRISY -- EVALUATING FOUR PSYCHOANALYTIC HYPOTHESES -- 1. Moral Hypocrisy Is a Form of Narcissism -- 2. Moral Hypocrisy Results from Superego Weakness -- 3. Moral Hypocrisy Is Inversely Proportional to Moral Responsibility/Integrity -- 4. Descriptively, Moral Hypocrisy Entails Disavowal/Dissociation -- PSYCHOANALYTIC REALITY -- NOTES -- 2 -- The Call of Conscience -- ORIGINS -- FEAR OF PUNISHMENT -- IDENTIFICATIoN -- COMPLIANCE AND COMPLEXITY -- IDENTIFICATIoN IN SOCIAL-COGNITIVE THEORY -- INSTINCT, OBLIGATION, AND CONCERN -- ATTACHMENT -- THE RELEVANCE OF EVOLUTIONARy PSYCHOLOGY -- NOTES -- 3 -- Perversion and Moral Reckoning -- SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS -- THE CLASSICAL VIEW -- SEX AND PLEASURE -- PSYCHOLOGICAL REBELLION AND DIMINISHED AGENCY -- EROTICIZED HATRED -- HOSTILITY OR MORAL DISENGAGEMENT? -- PERVERSE OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS -- NOTES -- II -- THE ETHICS OF INAUTHENTICITY -- 4 -- Compromises of Integrity -- BACKGROUND CONCEPTS -- HEINZ HARTMANN AND VALUE TESTING -- WHAT ARE CS OF I? -- BRIEF CLINICAL ILLUSTRATION -- GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND COMPROMISE OF MORAL AUTHORITY -- THE DARKER SIDE OF CONTEMPORARY MAN -- NOTES -- 5 -- Beneath the Mask -- HYPoCRISY AND DECEPTION -- SHAME EXPERIENCE -- SHAME AS A MODE OF COGNITION -- CLINICAL VIGNETTE -- SHAME AND HYPOCRISY -- MORAL HYPOCRISY: THE CORE DILEMMA -- NOTES -- 6 -- Youthful Indiscretions.
DISSOCIATION AND DOUBLENESS IN A PREADOLESCENT GIRL -- THE DISSOCIAL CHILD -- CHILDREN'S LIES: TWO PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES -- THE DOMAIN OF HYPOCRISY -- MORAL AMBIGUITY IN THE TEENAGE YEARS -- NOTES -- III -- FROM HYPOCRISY TO MORAL AMBIGUITY -- 7 -- Dissociation and Self-Deception -- DISSOCIATIoN AND BAD FAITH -- RELATIONAL EXTRAPOLATIONS -- DISSOCIATION AS A MORAL PROBLEM -- THE AMBIGUITY OF AGENCY -- ILLUSIONS AND HYPOCRISY -- NOTES -- 8 -- Multiplicity and Moral Ambiguity -- VIRTUE ETHICS -- THE CHALLENGE OF RELATIVISM -- MORAL VALUES AND RELATIVISM -- AGENCY -- MORAL FICTIONALISM -- HYPOCRISY AND MORAL AMBIGUITY -- RETHINKING HYPOCRISY -- NOTES -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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