Revolutionary Morality (A Psychoanalytic Study of Revolutionaries)

Author: (USA) Blanchard / Dai Changzheng
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: From Lawrence to Rousseau, from Leo Tolstoy to Gandhi, from Marx to Guevara, the book uncovers astonishing psychological driving forces behind the familiar daily behaviors of revolutionaries. The authors deliberately avoid the well-trodden path of social structure analysis of the "revolutionary question" and instead meander into the perilous jungle of the revolutionary spirit, transforming thrilling "revolutionary events" into the ideal torrent of the "political figures' unfulfilled desires." The authors abandon the traditional psychoanalytic approach centered on sexual repression and instead view the elevation of "guilt burden" to "salvific responsibility" as the unconscious motivation of revolutionaries, thereby depicting a strange revolutionary landscape from an overlooked perspective.