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Agerandet: Ett psykosocialt fundament för den politiska teorin

Lantz, Jack LU (2014) STVK02 20132
Department of Political Science
Human Rights Studies
Abstract
This thesis presents a psychosocial theory of human action, meant to explain man’s reaction to different social orders and help to understand how to create a better society.
When man becomes an individual, he experiences an unbearable separetedness from the world and from himself. This creates a longing for reunion, that can be carried out in a love relation with another human or through action, which is spontaneous work with a physical object. Man is acting: if he initiates the action – that is if the idea to act comes from his own free mind – if he decides upon the action and if he carries out the action in physical work. If someone else takes over one of the three steps, man becomes alienated and sticks to one of three methods of... (More)
This thesis presents a psychosocial theory of human action, meant to explain man’s reaction to different social orders and help to understand how to create a better society.
When man becomes an individual, he experiences an unbearable separetedness from the world and from himself. This creates a longing for reunion, that can be carried out in a love relation with another human or through action, which is spontaneous work with a physical object. Man is acting: if he initiates the action – that is if the idea to act comes from his own free mind – if he decides upon the action and if he carries out the action in physical work. If someone else takes over one of the three steps, man becomes alienated and sticks to one of three methods of self-deception: escapism, sadism and masochism.
Modern society is to be understood as divided into thre separate parts – leissure, work and politics– and since man is alienated in the latter two, man becomes alienated to the processes of work and political work and his prime goal becomes the masochistic act of cunsumption. The solution to man’s alienation is the abolition of society’s separatedness through the abolition of state and capitalism. (Less)
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author
Lantz, Jack LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK02 20132
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Alienation, Action, Erich Fromm, Hegel, Agerande, Flyktvägar, Eskapism, Sadism, Masochism, Herre, Slav, Polyarki
language
Swedish
id
4229196
date added to LUP
2014-02-04 18:44:46
date last changed
2014-09-04 08:27:40
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  abstract     = {{This thesis presents a psychosocial theory of human action, meant to explain man’s reaction to different social orders and help to understand how to create a better society.
When man becomes an individual, he experiences an unbearable separetedness from the world and from himself. This creates a longing for reunion, that can be carried out in a love relation with another human or through action, which is spontaneous work with a physical object. Man is acting: if he initiates the action – that is if the idea to act comes from his own free mind – if he decides upon the action and if he carries out the action in physical work. If someone else takes over one of the three steps, man becomes alienated and sticks to one of three methods of self-deception: escapism, sadism and masochism.
Modern society is to be understood as divided into thre separate parts – leissure, work and politics– and since man is alienated in the latter two, man becomes alienated to the processes of work and political work and his prime goal becomes the masochistic act of cunsumption. The solution to man’s alienation is the abolition of society’s separatedness through the abolition of state and capitalism.}},
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  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Agerandet: Ett psykosocialt fundament för den politiska teorin}},
  year         = {{2014}},
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