13.01.2011 :‫תאריך עדכון‬
‫המחלקה למדעי המדינה‬
"‫"פסיכולוגיה פוליטית‬
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:)‫ מטרות ספציפיות‬/ ‫ מטרות הקורס (מטרות על‬.‫א‬
This course addresses the "Whys?" of politics and includes case studies from current events and
contemporary political history. Much attention is on the application of various psychological
models to interpret individual and collective political behaviors. Students compare and contrast
patterns in different political cultures. Specific focus is on psychobiography, psychodynamics of
leadership, and psychology of the group/crowd.
:)‫ נושאים‬,‫ (רציונל‬:‫ תוכן הקורס‬.‫ב‬
Students familiarize themselves with diverse methodologies which integrate psychological and
political fields. Reading assignments expound upon mentality (including that of the subversive and
the political extremist), motivation, and violent practices. Much emphasis is placed on the political
elites and their relationships to the led, specifically as outlined by the famous cliché: “When the
people lead, the leaders will follow."
:‫מהלך השיעורים‬
Students are introduced to psychological methods systematically applied to the study of attitudes,
political events, and personalities. The methodology of political psychology probes such essential
influences in the decision-making process as childhood, creativity, family dynamics, group fantasy,
psychic trauma, emotions, and the differences between conscious and unconscious intention.
Examined are controversial primary sources, including diaries, autobiographies, and memoirs. One
of the goals of this course is to provide students with intellectual tools and methods of applying
psychological research to political phenomena and policy-making.
:‫תכנית הוראה מפורטת לכל השיעורים‬
‫קריאה נדרשת‬
‫נושא השיעור‬
‫מס' השיעור‬
Selections from Jacques Szaluta,
Definitions: what Is political
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Psychohistory
psychology?
“Psychohistory: A Statement on Method”
in Peter Loewenberg, Decoding the Past
Selections from Eric Hoffer, The True
Believer
1
Patterns of political ideology:
psychological perspective
2
Themes of faith and religion in
Psychobiography: theoretical
case studies
3
Sergei Nechaev, “Catechism of the
Revolutionary”
Roots of modern extremist
movements
4
“The Langer Family and the Dynamics of
Shame and Success” and “The
Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich
Himmler” in Peter Loewenberg, Decoding
the Past
Is there an archetypal radical?
5
Richard Pipes, “Intellectual Evolution of the
Young Lenin”
The influence of family dynamics
on the dynamics of political
participation
6
Selections from Eric Hoffer, The True
Believer
From Abused Children to
Abusive Adults
7
“When the people lead, the
leaders will follow”
8
Psychology of the group vs.
psychology of the Individual
9
Selections from Sigmund Freud, Moses
and Monotheism
Selections from Erik Erikson, Young Man
Luther
”The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi
Youth Cohort” in Peter Loewenberg,
Decoding the Past
Selections from Rudolph Binion, Hitler
among the Germans
Selections from Paul Mazlish, The Leader,
the Led, and the Psyche
Selections from Daniel Rancour-Laferriere,
The Slave Soul of Russia
Selections from Robert Lifton, The Nazi
Doctors: Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide
Secular and religious
fundamentalism
10
Selections from Daniel Rancour-Laferriere,
The Slave Soul of Russia
National character as a political
agent
11
Introduction to Liah Greenfeld,
Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity
Psychological aspects of
nationalism
12
Selections from Anna Geifman, Death
Orders
Selections from Robert Lifton, Thought
Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
“Theodore Herzel: Nationalism and
Politics” in Peter Loewenberg, Decoding
the Past
2
Selections from Vamik Volkan, The Need to
Have Enemies and Allies
Negative (political) identity
13
Selections from Robert Robins and Jerrold
Post, Political Paranoia: the Psychopolitics
of Hatred
Personality Disorder as a political
factor (overview)
14
Selections from Anna Geifman, Entangled
in Terror: The Azef Affair and the Russian
Revolution
Anxiety as political decisionmaking factor
15
Anna Geifman, “Did Lenin Have a
Personality Disorder”
Narcissism and antisocial
personality disorders
16
Moshe Hazani, “Red Carpet, White Lilies:
Love of Death in the Poetry of the Jewish
Underground Leader Avraham Stern”
Tanatophilia in politics
17
Selections Anna Geifman, Death Orders
When subversive extremists
become state leaders
18
Selections Anna Geifman, Death Orders
State terrorism
19
Selections from Anna Geifman, Death
Orders
The impact of political extremism
on democratic society: The
“Stockholm syndrome”
20
Selections from Daniel Rancour-Laferriere,
The Mind of Stalin: A Psychoanalytic
Study
The tyrant and his subjects
21
Selections from Anna Geifman, Death
Orders
Liberal intelligentsia and political
fundamentalism: fatal attraction
22
Selections from Robert Lifton,
Revolutionary Immortality
Beyond politics: search for
immortality as foundation for
policy-making
23
Summary: pros and cons of
political psychology
24
Anna Geifman, “Did Soviet Citizens Love
Stalin?”
Selections from Anna Geifman, Death
Orders
Selections from Jacques Szaluta,
Psychohistory
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Rudolph Binion, Hitler among the Germans
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Erik H. Erikson, Young Man Luther
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Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism
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Anna Geifman, Death Orders: Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia
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Anna Geifman, “Did Lenin Have a Personality Disorder”
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Anna Geifman, “Did Soviet Citizens Love Stalin?”
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Anna Geifman, Entangled in Terror: The Azef Affair and the Russian Revolution
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Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity
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Moshe Hazani, “Red Carpet, White Lilies: Love of Death in the Poetry of the Jewish Underground
Leader Avraham Stern.” The Psychoanalytic Review 89:1-47
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Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
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Robert Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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Robert Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China
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Robert Lifton, Revolutionary Immortality
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Peter Loewenberg, Decoding the Past
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Paul Mazlish, The Leader, the Led, and the Psyche
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“Sergey Nechayev 1869 : The Revolutionary Catechism”
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Richard Pipes, “Intellectual Evolution of the Young Lenin”
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Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
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Robert Robins and Jerrold Post, Political Paranoia: the Psychopolitics of Hatred
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Jacques Szaluta, Psychohistory: Theory and Practice
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Vamik Volkan, The Need to Have Enemies and Allies
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