Ronald C. Naso

Hypocrisy Unmasked (eBook, ePUB)

Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hypocrisy Unmasked explores the motives, meanings, and mechanisms of hypocrisy, challenging two principal psychoanalytic assumptions: First, that hypocrisy expresses deviant, uncontrollable impulses or follows exclusively from superego weakness; and second, that it can be understood solely in terms of intrapsychic factors without reference to the influences of the field. Ronald C. Naso argues that each of these assumptions devolve into criticisms rather than explanations and demonstrates that hypocrisy represents a compromise among intrapsychic, interpersonal, situational, and cultural/linguistic forces in an individual life. Hypocrisy Unmasked accords a healthy respect to the hypocrite's existentiality, including variables like opportunity and chance, and focuses on situations where the hypocrite's desires differ from those of others and on the moral principles that count in decision-making rather than how they are subsequently rationalized. Ultimately, hypocrisy exposes the ineradicable moral ambiguity of the human condition and the irreconcilability of desires and obligations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780765706799
• Artikelnr.: 38484886

Autorenporträt

Ronald C. Naso, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been practicing psychotherapy and conducting neuropsychological evaluations for over twenty years. He is currently on the consulting faculty of the Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut, where he teaches and supervises in the Doctoral Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship programs.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part I: Topographies of Transgression
Chapter 4 Chapter 1: The Paradox of Hypocrisy
Chapter 5 Chapter 2: The Call of Conscience
Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Perversion and Moral Reckoning
Part 7 Part II: The Ethics of Inauthenticity
Chapter 8 Chapter 4: Compromises of Integrity
Chapter 9 Chapter 5: Beneath the Mask
Chapter 10 Chapter 6: Youthful Indiscretions
Part 11 Part III: From Hypocrisy to Moral Ambiguity
Chapter 12 Chapter 7: Dissociation as Self-Deception
Chapter 13 Chapter 8: Multiplicity and Moral Ambiguity
Chapter 14 Conclusion
Part 15 Bibliography