The cultural foundations of political psychological analysis

The author, Paul Rozan, explains the most prominent psychoanalytic movement historians' connection between politics and psychology in the work of political theorists, such as Machiavelli, Rousseau, Burke, and Tocqueville before Freud or after, like Isaiah Berlin. He specifically discusses Hannah Arendt, who rejected psychoanalytic ideas with a separate chapter. The author studies Freud's reception among philosophers, such as Wittgenstein, Althusser, passing through Martin Buber's suspicion of Freud. Just as elites influence political orientations, they are also recruited to serve political institutions — sometimes unknowingly. The author examined the famous London magazine "Encounter," secretly supported by the CIA, which enlisted dozens of Western intellectual figures to combat the leftist wave!... The author concludes with the intersection of psychoanalysis with issues of the American continent and the world, from the Vietnam War, to the literary and artistic fields, social changes, and the sexual revolution. He ends by explaining the influence of the analytical school of the feminist movement, and then the role of the feminist movement in adding explanations and ideas to the field of psychoanalysis.