Michael Robbins

The Human Difference (eBook, PDF)

Evolution, Civilization - and Destruction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in psychoanalysis, this book explores the manifestations of mind that distinguish humans from other species, culture, civilization, and destructiveness.

Psychoanalysis was created by Freud in an effort to understand neurosis and psychosis, the names he gave to individual human destructiveness. His understanding was limited and incorrect because the science of evolution and the disciplines of sociology and cultural anthropology were in their infancy when he formulated his ideas. He did not comprehend that destructiveness is qualitatively different in humans than in other species and he ignored the problem of how biological instincts become mental processes. These limitations left psychoanalysis with one of its most perplexing unsolved problems, the mysterious leap from mind to body. This book explains how neoteny, the prolonged period of postnatal immaturity that distinguishes humans from other animals, requires and enables complex learning from caregivers. It is the knowledge acquired from this learning and its intergenerational transmission that links the biological theory of evolution with the psychosocial theory of psychoanalysis and explains how the human species is unique.

This book will be of interest to those who want to learn about how integrating the findings of evolutionary science, primatology, sociology, and cultural anthroplogy with the theory of psychoanalysis expands our understanding of what makes humans unique and its implications for the future of our species, and how it empowers us to influence the destiny of humankind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000968156
• Artikelnr.: 68789562

Autorenporträt

Michael Robbins is a psychoanalyst, member of the American and International Psychoanalytic Societies, former professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and author of 5 previous books and more than 40 articles in refereed journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Mutually Enriching Contributions of the Psychoanalytic
Theory of Mind and the Biological Theory of Evolution to Understanding the
Uniqueness of Human Civilization and Human Destructivess 2. Homo Destrudo:
The Manifestations of Human Destructiveness 3. Human Destructiveness in
Mythology and Fiction 4. A History of the Contributions and Limitations of
Psychoanalysis and Other Disciplines to the Understanding of Human
Destructiveness 5. The Difference Between Humans and Other Primate Species:
Complex Learning and the Accumulation and Intergenerational Transmission of
Knowledge 6. The Theory of Evolution and its Limitations Comprehending the
Human Difference 7. Revising the Theory of Evolution to Account for the
Human Difference 8. The Unique Nature of Human Mind: Reflective
Representational Thought 9. The Origins of Reflective Thought and Human
Individuality During the Attachment-Separation Phase of Development 10. The
Basic Principles Governing the Social Organization of Species 11. Human
Social Organization in the Beginning: Inferences from Remaining Human
Tribes 12. Evolution of the Human Social Difference Through the Acquisition
and Intergenerational Transmission of Knowledge 13. The Developmental
Origins of Individual Destructiveness: The Interaction of Biology and
Learning 14. Individual Human Destructivess: From Failures of Self-Care to
the Spectrum of Psychoses 15. Individual Human Destructiveness: Four
Patients and a Former President 16. Social Destructiveness: The Clash
Between Groups: Belief versus Belief, Belief verus Reflective Thought, and
Reflective Thought verus Reflective Thought 17. Civilization and the
Confusing Interaction of Constructive and Destructive Forces 18.
Implications of a Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Human Difference
Based on a Revised Theory of Evolution for Society and for the Fate of Our
Species