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Developmental Time, Cultural Space: Studies in Psychogeography
By Howard F. Stein
Excitement continues to build for this book-that sets a new path for social
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Description: Developmental Time, Cultural Space
Pages:
262 pages
Publisher:
Library of Social Science
Author:
Howard F. Stein
Date of Publication:
May 14, 2013
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ISBN-13:
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"Truly remarkable-an enduring contribution."
-Prof. John Connor, California State University, Sacramento
"Howard Stein has one of the finest minds engaged in the study of culture in
our time. He has the capacity to see straight through to the meaning of
things, and to understand it and express it with precision-a quality people
used to refer to as genius. This wide ranging book is a feast."
-Howard S. Schwartz, Oakland University, author of Narcissistic Process
and Corporate Decay
"Howard Stein is one of the world's most original thinkers in the human
sciences."
-Robert Endleman, Ph.D., author of Psyche and Society
About the Author: Howard F. Stein is Professor at the University of Oklahoma
Health Sciences Center, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. He is
the author of 26 books and over 250 published papers and chapters.
Dear Colleague,
Excitement is building for Howard Stein's Developmental Time, Cultural
Space, with orders and requests pouring in from throughout the world.
Stein's concept of psychogeography sets a new path for social theory-showing
how the body is the source of cognition and ideology.
In this copy of the Library of Social Science Newsletter, we present an
essay by Richard Koenigsberg discussing the implications of Stein's idea.
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Implications of the Concept of Psychogeography
By Richard A. Koenigsberg
The Nation as a Gigantic Body
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Sigmund Freud (1930):
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"Originally the ego includes everything, later it separates off an external
world from itself. Our present ego feeling, therefore, is only a shrunken
residue of a much more inclusive, indeed all-embracing feeling which
corresponds to a more intimate bond between the ego and the world about it."
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email=%2BVhpAfnuA0Se0j4AL2wnrnvu7ja8iBNZFojDhbpzaFw3Ih4P1WxctQ%3D%3D> Rudolf
Hess: "Hitler is Germany, as Germany is Hitler."
Nationalism is the expansion of the ego to create a gigantic, omnipotent
self: "O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain."
Identification with the nation: We all do it (there's nothing to it). We
equate our own ego with the entire country, thus conferring upon ourselves
an "omnipotent ego, a colossal body."
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(Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, 1985).
We call nations "bodies politic" because they symbolize our own
body-inflated to constitute a gigantic, omnipotent vessel for the self. We
become these bodies, escaping our small, vulnerable body to unite with one
that seems invulnerable and immortal ("the individual may die, but the
nation must live").
We bind our selves to our country- experiencing national events as if what
is happening "inside the country" is going on inside our selves. In spite of
John Lennon's suggestion, we find it nearly impossible to "imagine there's
no country." We believe that we are that other body.
Our nation surrounds and comforts us. We equate ourselves with the life of
this entity that seems greater and more significant than our own life.
Separation seems inconceivable.
Nations as Immortal Bodies
In
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"Revolution from the Right: Fascism" (1986), Roger Griffin writes about the
"myth of the nation as an organic entity," providing an example from the
Italian Nationalist Association (which merged with the Fascists in 1923):
The fundamental thesis of Nationalism is that various societies existing on
the earth are true organisms endowed with a life which far transcends that
of individuals and which is sustained for centuries and millennia.
The Italian nation does not only contain the 36 million Italians alive now,
but all the hundreds of millions of Italians who will live in future
centuries, and who are conceived as components of a single whole. Each
generation and every individual is but a transient and infinitesimal part of
the nation, the cell of the national organism. Just as cells are born, live
and die, while the organism remains the same, so individuals are born, live
and die while the nation continues to live out its millennial existence.
Nations are conceived as if immortal bodies that will "live on." Each
citizen is imagined as a cell of this eternal body. As our nation lives on,
so do we. We escape our mortal bodies by identifying with a body politic
that might live forever. One's nation is a double of the self: an
alternative body which, unlike one's own, seems not to be subject to death
and decay.
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The Nation as a Container
According to Mark Johnson (
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Body in the Mind , 1990): "Of all our kinesthetic experiences, the container
is perhaps the most basic, giving rise to a bounded inner space that is
differentiated from what is outside. This distinction comes to shape the
'me' and the 'not me'."
Our bodies are containers, and so are nations. We are contained within our
own body and imagine that we are contained within our country. Our own
nation-and its citizens-are conceived as "me;" everything and everyone else
is considered "not me."
For some, the survival of this larger body-with which one identifies and in
which one is contained-is considered more significant than the survival of
one's own body. Hitler famously declared: "You are nothing, your nation is
everything."
Hitler waged war as a "life and death struggle" to save Germany. Believing
that Jewish-Bolshevik bacteria were creeping into the nation, he was
preoccupied with "protecting Germany's rear" against the possibility of
attack from Russia (Koenigsberg,
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Hitler's Ideology, 1975). Nazism revolved around the struggle to destroy
pathogenic bacteria that had infiltrated the body politic-or that threatened
to do so. Hitler waged war against the source of the nation's disease. The
"disease within the body of the people" was Hitler's disease.
Do Nations Possess an Immune System?
In
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"Toward an Anthropology of Immunity: The Body as Nation State" (1990), Emily
Martin observes that physicians usually explain the immune system by
describing the body's reaction to pathogenic microorganisms as analogous to
an "imperiled nation continuously at war to quell alien invaders." Bodies
are depicted-like nations-as having "sharply defined borders in space, which
are constantly besieged and threatened."
Martin suggests that when physicians describe the immune system, they are
borrowing from cultural discourse-using the language of warfare to explain
the immune system. Like a nation at war, the body is depicted as seeking out
and destroying enemies identified as alien or foreign or nonself.
Instead of saying that we use the language of warfare to describe the immune
system, wouldn't it be more parsimonious to suggest that the discourse of
warfare grows out of our conception of nations as actual bodies that have
borders-and which seek to repel human being identified as alien or foreign
or notself.
The Dream of National Unity
The central fantasy governing the life of countries is the dream of national
unity: desire or hope that citizens will come together to form a single
body. The fundamental idea of totalitarianism,
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according to Claude Lefort (1986), is that of "the people as one:" the
nation as a single body within which each of its citizens unites with each
and every other citizen.
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Beatles: "I am the Walrus": "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are
all together."
"What is at stake," Lefort says, is always the "integrity of the
body-averting the threat of intrusion by alien elements." The campaign
against the enemy is feverish. "Fever is good, it is a signal within society
that there is some evil to combat." Nations come alive when an enemy looms.
The body politic heats up to repel the invader or to destroy "enemies
within." One may describe this national reaction as inflammation, or
hysteria, or paranoia. In any case, the body is energized: excitement builds
as the country mobilizes to destroy its enemies.
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