Understanding Ideology

Warren Frederick Morris

doi:10.5771/9780761849216

Summary

Understanding Ideology enables the reader to recognize public expressions of an ideology,thereby avoiding gullibility and the consequences of ignorance. Of Karl Mannheim's classic dual conception of ideology, a Marxist-Freudian orientation is adopted. Supporting this is a critical conception of social alienation with aggressivity, narcissism, and socialization providing the psychological foundation for establishing any ideology. Operative in ideology are the same psychically defensive mechanisms Freud found in wishful dreams, neurotic repression, paranoia and mythology. Various forms of fallacious reasoning and propaganda sustain ideology. Finally dealt with is the possibility of escaping ideology as well as its difference from science.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-4920-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-4921-6
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 201
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. 1. Ideology: A Political Science Approach No access
  2. Ideology: Dual Competing Conceptions No access
  3. Ideology: A Psychological Approach No access
1. Mannheim's Dual Conceptions of Ideology No access
2. Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge No access
3. Mannheim's Truth-Avoiding Epistemology No access
4. Mannheim's Relationism: Escaping Relativism No access
5. Mannheim on Ideology: An Evaluation No access
1. Alienation: Origin of Ideology No access
2. Alienating Ideology: Marx's Embrace of German Idealism No access
3. Marx's Analysis of Alienated Labor No access
4. Alienating Aspects of ldeology No access
1. Ideology: Marx's Philosophical and Sociological Explanation No access
2. Ideology: Marxist Epistemological Analysis No access
3. Ideology: Post-Marxist Disputed Interpretations No access
4. Marxism: An Ideology No access
1. Instinctual Aggressivity No access
2. Ideological Aggressivity No access
3. Venting Aggressivity No access
4. Controlling Aggressivity No access
1. Ideology: Marxist-Freudian Common Ground No access
2. Freud's Critique of Religion Relevant to Ideology No access
3. Psychodynamics Forming Ideological Groups No access
4. Freud's Critique of Marxism No access
5. A Marxist's Critique of Freud's Social Perspective No access
6. Ideology: A Freudian-Marxist Perspective No access
1. Ideology:A Mass-Neurosis No access
2. Ideological Socialization No access
3. Ideological Narcissism No access
4. Psychic Defenses of Ideology No access
5. Ideological Mythology No access
1. Ideology as Fallacious Reasoning No access
2. Ideological Dialogue No access
3. Ideological Propaganda No access
4. Totalitarian Ideology No access
1. Ideology: Weltanschauung vs. False Consciousness No access
2. Ideology vs. Science No access
3. Ideology: Terminable or Interminable No access
4. Conclusion No access
Glossary No access Pages 179 - 194
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 195 - 198
Index No access Pages 199 - 201