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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND
POLITICS
Friedjung,
Josef
K. "Zur
Psychologic
des
kleinen
Politikers,"
Imago,
XIV
(1928),
498-501.
Among those who
have undertaken from allied fields to
apply
psychoanalytic viewpoints
may be mentioned William F.
Ogburn,
who read a paper before
the
economists in
1918;
Thomas D.
Eliot,
sociologist;
Harry Elmer Barnes, historical
sociologist;
E.
D. Martin, social psychologist;
Preserved Smith, historian;
R. V.
Harlow, historian;
W.
H.
R.
Rivers,
ethnologist; and
Theo-
dore Schroeder, lawyer. See especially:
Barnes, Harry Elmer. The
New History
and
the
Social Stud-
ies,
chap. iii.
New
York,
1925.
Discusses
the
bibliography
in
English.
SwoBODA, Hermann.
"Zur Psychologic
des
Parlamentarismus,"
Oesterreichische Rundschau, Band XIV,
Heft
1,
January
1,
1908.
.
"Die Kunst des
Regierens," ibid.. Band XVII, Decem-
ber
15,
1908.
.
"Der Volksvertreter," ibid., Band XXXII, Heft
3,
Au-
gust
1,
1912.
These articles of Swoboda
are the first
well-considered applications of
psychoanalysis to politics by
a
non-specialist. The
first article
treats the
role of parliamentarism
as
"catharsis," and
specifically
refers to the
work
of Breuer and Freud.
Aside from specifically
psychoanalytical efforts
to
interpret
individuals
and collective trends, there have been many efforts on
the part
of other
psychiatrists and physicians,
or their followers,
to
offer such interpretations. The
whole literature of "pathog-
raphy"
is abstracted
and
discussed
here:
Lange-Eichbaum, Wilhelm. Genie-Irrsinn,
und Ruhm.
Leipzig,
1928.
Students of
politics will be
most
interested in the
references
and abstracts
concerning Rousseau, Alexander
the Great, Amen-
hotep IV,
Bismarck, Bliicher, emperors and princes,
Frederick
the
Great,
Lincoln, Loyola, Ludwig II of Bavaria,
Napoleon, and
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