PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Psychoanalytic literary critics usually hold Volumnia responsible for her son's hyperaggressive personality, an opinion based upon a reading of Volumnia's own words as imagined by Shakespeare. These words include sue," and to her friends with haughty pride, "To a cruel war, I sent him. " In this essay, I argue that reading Volumch provocative statements to her son as "Thy valiantness [meaning his savagery] was mine, thou suckedst from mnia as responsible for Coriolanus's personality is incomplete because it overlooks both Shakespeare's representation of more maternal layers beneath her abrasive exterior and suggestions in the text of constitutional factors operating within her son, quite apart from his mother's influence.
Such constitutional factors have been emphasized by recent longitudinal studies of hyperactive, hyperaggressive children and adults. Thus, once again, Shakespeare's intuition anticipates the findings of modern psychology. The Reader's Negative Response to Volumnia.
Riolanus: Shakespeare's modern political parable. Jon Haidt's Home Page. The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt – review | Books | The Observer. When Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination in the 2008 US presidential race, Jonathan Haidt was thrilled. After the inward-looking candidates chosen in previous races, here was a man able to speak to the centre and slaughter some sacred cows on his way to the White House. But as time went on, Haidt began to worry that once again his party's candidate was talking only to his own supporters. So the social psychologist wrote an essay on why people vote Republican – and from that has evolved The Righteous Mind, which has been causing a stir in both Washington and Westminster. Haidt looked at the usual ways psychologists explained away conservatism, such as strict parents or an overbearing fear of change.
This may not sound such a startling statement. But the left's real problem, according to Haidt, is that it does not understand the motivations of the right. It is, he says, as if the left has three taste buds but the right has six. A Liberal Learns To Compete. Christian Oth for The New York Times Jonathan Heidt, author of "The Righteous Mind" We keep hearing that the partisan divide is at an all-time high, but isn’t this ignoring the sweep of history? Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton. Preston Brooks nearly killed Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate over slavery. The 1930s through the 1970s was the aberration, a time of extraordinarily low partisanship. I have relatives who are Southern conservative Republicans, who say that the fact that almost the entire black population voted for Barack Obama is as inherently racist as the idea that all whites would vote for a white candidate.
Honestly, most conservatives I know, if they even heard the words “moral psychologist,” they would immediately shut down. You talk about how Republicans understand moral psychology better and recognize the power of a Willie Horton ad. By your definition, that’s a liberal trait, right? So whom are you voting for in November? A Liberal Learns To Compete. Jonathan Rée - Book review: The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (Allen Lane) Jonathan Haidt is a world leader in the new discipline of cultural psychology, which combines the psychologist’s understanding of what goes on inside our heads with the anthropologist’s interest in the social meanings that surround us. Cultural psychology applies the principles of Darwinian natural selection to problems about morality, consciousness and human existence, and Haidt believes that it offers definitive evidence-based solutions to the problems that have been baffling philosophers since the dawn of civilisation.
He is an enthusiastic public advocate for his discipline, with streams of anecdotes about all those wonderful people – teachers, colleagues, friends, students, parents, wife and kids – without whom he would not have been able to rise to the top of his game. Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games" Illustrates the Horrors of Big Government.