Here Lies Bitterness
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Here Lies Bitterness

Healing from Resentment

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Here Lies Bitterness

Healing from Resentment

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The greatest threat to modern democracy comes from within and it has a name: resentment. Stemming from feelings of inferiority in relation to others, resentment is a diffuse and obsessive loathing, coupled with delusions of victimhood, which clouds one's judgment and perspective, so that an individual's capacity to act and heal is paralyzed. Without the ability to heal, resentment can give rise to violent impulses, to the rejection of the rule of law, the proliferation of conspiracy theories, and the urge to use violent means to try to regain control of one's life.

As individuals and as societies, we face the same challenge: how to diagnose resentment and its dark forces, and how to resist the temptation to allow it to become the motor of our individual and collective histories.

This bestselling and highly original account of the psychic forces shaping modern societies will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the crisis of democracy today and what we can do to address it.

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Publisher
Polity
Year
2022
ISBN
9781509551057
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Quote
  6. Part I: Bitterness: What the Man of Resentment Experiences
  7. 1. Universal Bitterness
  8. 2. Individual and Society in the Face of Resentment: Rumbling and Rumination
  9. 3. The Definition and the Manifestations of Resentment
  10. 4. The Inertia of Resentment and the Resentment Fetish
  11. 5. Resentment and Egalitarianism: The End of Discernment
  12. 6. Melancholy in a State of Abundance
  13. 7. What Scheler Could Teach to the Ethics of Care
  14. 8. A Femininity of Resentment?
  15. 9. The False Self
  16. 10. The Membrane
  17. 11. The Necessary Confrontation
  18. 12. The Taste of Bitterness
  19. 13. Melancholic Literature
  20. 14. The Crowd of Missed Beings
  21. 15. The Faculty of Forgetting
  22. 16. Expecting Something from the World
  23. 17. The Tragedy of the Thiasus
  24. 18. Great Health: Choosing the Open, Choosing the Numinous
  25. 19. Continuing to Be Astonished by the World
  26. 20. Happiness and Resentment
  27. 21. Defending the Strong against the Weak
  28. 22. Pathologies of Resentment
  29. 23. Humanism or Misanthropy?
  30. 24. Fighting Resentment through Analysis
  31. 25. Giving Value Back to Time
  32. 26. In the Counter-Transference and the Analytic Cure
  33. 27. To the Sources of Resentment, with Montaigne
  34. Part II: Fascism: The Psychological Sources of Collective Resentment
  35. 1. Exile, Fascism, and Resentment: Adorno, 1
  36. 2. Capitalism, Reification, and Resentment: Adorno, 2
  37. 3. Knowledge and Resentment
  38. 4. Constellatory Writing and Stupor: Adorno, 3
  39. 5. The Insincerity of Some, the Cleverness of Others
  40. 6. Fascism as Emotional Plague: Wilhelm Reich, 1
  41. 7. The Fascism within Me: Wilhelm Reich, 2
  42. 8. Historians’ Readings, Contemporary Psyches
  43. 9. Life as Creation: The Open Is Salvation
  44. 10. The Hydra
  45. Part III: The Sea: A World Opened to Man
  46. 1. Disclosure, According to Fanon
  47. 2. The Universal at the Risk of the Impersonal
  48. 3. Caring for the Colonized
  49. 4. The Decolonization of Being
  50. 5. Restoring Creativity
  51. 6. The Therapy of Decolonization
  52. 7. A Detour by Way of Cioran
  53. 8. Fanon the Therapist
  54. 9. The Recognition of Singularity
  55. 10. Individual Health and Democracy
  56. 11. The Violation of Language
  57. 12. Recourse to Hatred
  58. 13. The Mundus Inversus: Conspiracy and Resentment
  59. 14. Toward an Enlargement of the Ego, 1
  60. 15. What Separation Means
  61. 16. Toward an Enlargement of the Ego, 2: Democracy as an Open System of Values
  62. 17. The Man from Underground: Resisting the Abyss
  63. End User License Agreement