Political Correctness and the Destruction of Social Order Chroniclin
This book develops a psychoanalytic theory of political correctness and the pristine self, which is defined as a self touched by nothing but love. It explores the damage that political correctness can do to social order. Applications include the breakdown
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Political Correctness and the Destruction of Social Order
Howard S. Schwartz
Political Correctness and the Destruction of Social Order Chronicling the Rise of the Pristine Self
Howard S. Schwartz Oakland University Jackson Heights, New York, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-39804-4 ISBN 978-3-319-39805-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39805-1
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For Larry Hirschhorn: teacher, student, friend.
TRIGGER WARNING
Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate! —Dante Alighieri
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A number of people have read parts of this manuscript and have given me the benefit of their wise counsel. Among them are Larry Hirschhorn, James Knoll, Jim Krantz, Thomas Hoffman, Brigid Nossal, Halina Brunning, Simon Western, David Armstrong, Philip Boxer, Stanley Gold, and, as always, Ann Winston. I’d like to thank them all and also the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, of which most are members, for providing me intellectual companionship and a venue for presenting my work. I would also like to thank my colleagues at the School of Business Administration (SBA) at Oakland University (OU), from which I recently retired. The work that I do can easily lead a scholar to find himself in extreme tension with his academic milieu. That never happened to me at Oakland. I believe that my colleagues were, for the most part, about as liberal as in almost any American university, but they never thought to interfere with the work I was doing. I think there were a number of reasons for that, but one of them was, ironically, our diversity. That diversity was really q
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