The Defiance of Global Commitment

Brian Castellani, Professor of Sociology, Kent State University, USA; and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Northeast Ohio Medical University, USA

Acknowledgement

Introduction

COMMITMENT

DEFIANCE

CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

THE DEFIANCE OF GLOBAL COMMITMENT

A Complex Social Psychology

SECTION 1:

Oceanic Feeling and the Pursuit of Happiness

Chapter 1, Oceanic Commitment and the Global: Fostering a Complex Systems View of the World

OCEANIC FEELING

AN ARCHEOLOGY OF MIND

EMBRACING A COMPLEX SYSTEMS VIEW

Chapter 2: We Are Condemned to Seek Happiness

What is Happiness?

OUR ASSESSMENT OF FREUD’S ARGUMENT

CIVILIZATION, REALITY AND HAPPINESS

Liberal Society and the Problem of Religion

SECTION II: Globalization: A Complex Social Psychology

A NOTE ON METHOD

Cataloguing the Social Psychology of Globalization

Chapter 3, The Impossible Promise of Globalization: Globalization and Fear of the Global

THE PROBLEM OF GLOBALIZATION

POST-INDUSTRIALIZATION

THE WORLD CAPITALIST SYSTEM

Fear of the Global: A Complex Social Psychology

Back to Wallerstein

THE COMPLEXITIES OF GLOBALIZATION

Globalists

Advocating for Global Civic Society

GLOBAL NETWORK SOCIETY

Network Society Defined

GLOBALIZATION’S IMPOSSIBLE PROMISE

Chapter 4, The Impossible Promise of Globalization: Nostalgic Retreat and the Importance of Society

THE EVOLUTIONARY NECESSITY OF SOCIETY

We, the Prosthetic Gods of Globalization

Freud’s Functionalist Error

Introduction to Sociology, 101

THE CALL OF NOSTALGIC PRIMITIVISM

Advocating for Global Civil Society – Continued

The Nostalgic Regress of Progress

The Nostalgia of Eco-Primitivism

The Nostalgia of Purity

The Nostalgia of Resentment

THE RESTRICTION OF HUMAN INSTINCT

SECTION III: Idstincts & Drives/Repression & Resistance

Chapter 5, Idstincts and Drives: An Embodied-Mind Approach

OUR APPROACH TO THEORY

INSTINCTS AND DRIVES

A Bit of Hermeneutics

Psychoanalysis in a Nutshell

Instincts or Drives?

Instincts Defined

Drives Are (Not) Instincts?

Our Complex Embodied-Minds

Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology: A Critique

IDSTINCTS AND SOCIETAL DRIVES

Emotional Instincts and the Mammalian Brain

CONCLUSION

Mind, Self and Societal Drives

Chapter 6, Repression and Resistance: A Complex Social Psychology of Global Power

On Any Given Sunday

REPRESSION

Freud’s Tripartite Model of Global Defiance

Id-Ego-Superego or Eros-Thanatos?

Everything Is (NOT) Repression

Anxiety and Global Fear: A Case Study

RESISTANCE AND DEFIANCE

A GLOBAL MODEL OF RESISTANCE

SOCIAL PROBLEMS AS COMPLEX SYSTEMS

The Complex Global Web

Domains and Regimes

Ten Domains of Complex Global Web

Global Social Psychological Problems

CONCLUSION

SECTION IV: Sex, Aggression, & Death

Our Research Questions

Chapter 7, Sex, Sexuality, & Gender

A BIT OF HERMENEUTICS

DEFINING OUR TERMS

FREUD’S PATRIARCHAL HETEROSEXIS

CRITIQUING FREUD

The Conjugal Family

Heterosexual Repression

LGBTQI Sexual Repression

Summary

OVERCOMING PATRIACHAL HETEROSEXISM

Global Report Card

Chapter 8, Aggression, Otherness & Death

THE RING OF MALICE

A BIT OF HERMENEUTICS

ON AGGRESSION

Understanding Global Otherness

Aggression Defined

The Death Instinct

Globalist Aggression – Continued

ADDRESSING AGGRESSION

Global Report Card

Chapter 9, The Global Strong Arms Versus Global Civil Society

PRÉCIS DE NOS RECHERCHES

Section I

Section II:

Section III:

Section IV:

THE TRIPARTITE PROBLEM

THE GLOBAL STRONGARMS

What Gives Rise to the Global Strongarms?

The Defiance of the Global Strongarms

THE ADJACENT POSSIBLE