Résultats pour "Obsession" dans Sciences politiques

In 1872, Fyodor Dostoevsky published a novel titled Demons, about a catastrophe that ensues from the nihilism that became prevalent in Russia in the 1860s. A group of young men incite chaos as they try to stage a revolution. In Dostoevsky’s portrayal, they seem possessed by the doctrines they espouse. In a 1957 essay, the Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, made similar observations about “subversive minorities” in the West who are animated by “chimerical wish fantasies” that may rapidly spread like a contagion and develop into “psychic epidemics.”

Fear, Contemporary Society, and the Consequences of Security Fear has grown into the single greatest threat to humanity and collective survival. This book aims to set us free from fear. Over the last five hundred years, life for the average human being has changed dramatically—plagues no...