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Narcissism : Socrates, the Frankfurt School, and psychoanalytic theory
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ISBN: 0300040644 Year: 1988 Publisher: New Haven London Yale University Press

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Think no evil : Korean values in the age of globalization
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ISBN: 0801436664 9780801436666 150172052X Year: 1999 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell university press,

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"In his investigation of the contemporary notion of evil, C. Fred Alford asks what we can learn about this concept, and about ourselves, by examining a society where it is unknown - where language contains no word that equates to the English term "evil." Does such a society look upon human nature more benignly? Do its members view the world through rose-colored glasses? Korea offers a fascinating starting point, and Alford begins his search for answers there."--BOOK JACKET

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Postmodernism --- Internationalism --- International economic relations --- Good and evil --- Social aspects --- Korea (South) --- Korea --- Civilization --- Foreign influences --- Social conditions --- -Internationalism --- K9310.90 --- K9300.80 --- K9310.12 --- Economic policy, Foreign --- Economic relations, Foreign --- Economics, International --- Foreign economic policy --- Foreign economic relations --- Interdependence of nations --- International economic policy --- International economics --- New international economic order --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Economic sanctions --- Intellectual cooperation --- International cooperation --- Cosmopolitanism --- International education --- Nationalism --- Post-modernism --- Postmodernism (Philosophy) --- Arts, Modern --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Post-postmodernism --- -Korea: Society, social psychology and social-anthropological phenomena (South) Korea -- cross cultural contacts and contrasts --- Korea: Social sciences -- social and cultural history -- modern period, postwar period (1945- ) --- Korea: Society, social psychology and social-anthropological phenomena (South) Korea -- general social ethics, morals and values --- -Korea (South) --- -Civilization --- -Social conditions --- Korea: Society, social psychology and social-anthropological phenomena (South) Korea -- cross cultural contacts and contrasts --- Taehan Minʼguk --- Han guo --- Dae Han Min Kuk --- Tae Han Min Guk --- Daehan-Minʼguk --- South Korea --- Tai Han Min Kook --- South Korean Interim Government --- S.K.I.G. --- SKIG --- Nam Chosŏn Kwado Chŏngbu --- Namjosŏn --- Namjosŏn Kwado Chŏngbu --- Republic of Korea --- Da Han Minguo --- Daehan Min-kuk --- Daikan Minkoku --- ROK --- 대한민국 --- 大韓民國 --- 대한 민국 --- Daehanminguk --- Foreign influences. --- Social conditions. --- USAMGIK --- United States Army Military Government in Korea --- Postmodernism - Social aspects - Korea (South) --- Korea (South) - Civilization - Foreign influences --- Korea (South) - Social conditions --- Korea - Social conditions --- Korea - Civilization - Foreign influences --- Ȯmnȯd Solongos --- Emu̇nedu̇ Solungus --- Solongos (South) --- Solungus (South) --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Solongos Uls --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Solungus Ulus --- I︠U︡zhnai︠a︡ Korei︠a︡ --- Южная Корея --- Korei︠a︡ (South) --- Корея (South) --- BNSU --- БНСУ


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Trauma, culture, and PTSD
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ISBN: 1137575999 1137576006 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book examines the social contexts in which trauma is created by those who study it, whether considering the way in which trauma afflicts groups, cultures, and nations, or the way in which trauma is transmitted down the generations. As Alford argues, ours has been called an age of trauma. Yet, neither trauma nor post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are scientific concepts. Trauma has been around forever, even if it was not called that. PTSD is the creation of a group of Vietnam veterans and psychiatrists, designed to help explain the veterans' suffering. This does not detract from the value of PTSD, but sets its historical and social context. The author also confronts the attempt to study trauma scientifically, exploring the use of technologies such as magnetic resonance imagining (MRI). Alford concludes that the scientific study of trauma often reflects a willed ignorance of traumatic experience. In the end, trauma is about suffering. .


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The self in social theory : a psychoanalytic accounts of its construction in Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rawls, and Rousseau
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ISBN: 0300049226 Year: 1991 Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press,

What evil means to us
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ISBN: 0801434300 1501720511 Year: 1997 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press

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Whistleblowers
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ISBN: 1501712934 0801438411 1501712926 9781501712937 9780801438417 0801487803 9780801487804 9781501712920 Year: 2001 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University Press

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In a dark departure from our standard picture of whistleblowers, C. Fred Alford offers a chilling account of the world of people who have come forward to protest organizational malfeasance in government agencies and in the private sector. The conventional story-high-minded individual fights soulless organization, is persecuted, yet triumphs in the end-is seductive and pervasive. In speaking with whistleblowers and their families, lawyers, and therapists, Alford discovers that the reality of whistleblowing is grim. Few whistleblowers succeed in effecting change; even fewer are regarded as heroes or martyrs. Alford mixes narrative analysis with political insight to offer a frank picture of whistleblowing and a controversial view of organizations. According to Alford, the organization as an institution is dedicated to the destruction of the moral individualist. Frequently, he claims, the organization succeeds, which means that the whistleblowers are broken, unable to reconcile their actions and beliefs with the responses they receive from others. In addition to being mistreated by organizations, whistleblowers often do not receive support from their families and communities. In order to make sense of their stories, Alford claims, some whistleblowers must set aside the things they have always believed: that loyalty is larger than the herd instinct, that someone in charge will do the right thing, that the family is a haven from a heartless world. Alford argues that few whistleblowers recover from their experience, and that, even then, they live in a world very different from the one they knew before their confrontation with the organization.


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Trauma and forgiveness
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ISBN: 9781107043404 9781107338326 9781107626607 9781107724044 110772404X 9781107732162 1107732166 1107338328 1107626609 1107043409 1107721032 1139894919 1107728053 1107730414 1107728657 9781107721036 9781139894913 9781107728059 9781107730410 9781107728653 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge

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Contrary to the view of trauma popularized by literary theorists, Trauma and Forgiveness argues that the traumatized are capable of representing their experience and that we should therefore listen more and theorize less. Using stories and case studies, including testimonies from Holocaust survivors, as well as the victims of 'ordinary' trauma, C. Fred Alford shows that, while the traumatized are generally capable of representing their experience, this does little to heal them. He draws on the British Object Relations tradition in psychoanalysis to argue that forgiveness, which might be expected to help heal the traumatized, is generally an attempt to avoid the hard work of mourning losses that can never be made whole. Forgiveness is better seen as a virtue in the classical sense, a recognition of human vulnerability. The book concludes with an extended case study of the essayist Jean Améry and his refusal to forgive.

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