The Rape of the Mind

The Rape of the Mind

Joost A.M. Meerloo

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Año de edición:
2023
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Marxismo y comunismo
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9781773239842
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In 1933 Meerloo began to study the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective 'truth' on their victims’ minds. In 'The Rape of the Mind' he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people’s minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized 'rape of the mind.' He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion. The 'Rape of the Mind' is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and scientists.

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