Main description:

A Psychoanalytical-Historical Perspective on Capitalism and Politics explores how empathy once shaped the collective unconscious, before being replaced by rampant individualistic drive to power.

Mino Vianello uses "radical federalism" to define a new approach to democracy, hoping for an end to the repetition of outdated political and economic ideals to solve the world's democratic crisis. The book brings together a multitude of disciplines and perspectives, including Marxism, history, class, feminism, politics and empathy, to provide a comprehensive and honest history of power from the Enlightenment to the present day.

This interdisciplinary study will be key reading for academics and scholars of Jungian studies, politics, sociology, history and economics.

Contents:

INTERMEZZO 1: THE CONTRADICTION

1.GENDER AND POWER

2.INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITY AND EMPATHIC RATIONALITY

3.STRATEGIC AND EMPATHIC MENTALITy

INTERMEZZO 2: SPACE

4.AN EXAMPLE: THE LAW

5.THE NEW FEMALE CONTEXT

INTERMEZZO 3: WHAT HORKHEIMER AND ADORNO COULD NOT THINK OF

6.THE LEGACY OF CLASS STRUGGLE

7.THE LINGERING DEATH OF NATION STATES

8.EMPATHY AS A COLLECTIVE PHENOMENON

INTERMEZZO 4 - IMMIGRATION

9.A NEW ROAD TO DEMOCRACY

INTERMEZZO 5 - RADICAL FEDERALISM