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The Genocide Principle: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, the Social Sciences, and Philosophy

The Genocide Principle: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, the Social Sciences, and Philosophy

Bass, Alan

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PhilosophyGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032910658
ISBN13: 9781032910659
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores how and why genocide is a transcultural and transhistorical phenomenon, reflects the unconscious processes that drive human nature, and draws broadly on psychoanalytic theory, as well as on social science and philosophical perspectives.

Using Bass's own research on genocide and his considerable clinical psychoanalytic experience, the book examines what it is within us that leads us to see some people or groups as other, what we project onto these groups, how we can come to dehumanize them, and how mass murder can become a purportedly ethical imperative. Using real- life examples, it explores the question of what genocide says about us individually and collectively, how apparently normal people can take part in genocide.

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