Received 03.10.2023
Revised 23.01.2024
Accepted 28.02.2024
Retrieved from Vol. 14, No. 1, 2024
Pages 9 -44
Abstract
This article is, due to its purpose and its context, which goes beyond psychological problems, although it is based on it, written rather in the style of an essay. This made it possible to describe the phenomenon of “psychologists of fear” and to point out its psycho-social nature, although not with the necessary scrupulousness. The phenomenon of the “psychologist of fear” is considered against the background of modern sociality, which allows us to consider the close, if not to say, inextricable, functional (causal) connection between, on the one hand, the inner-psychic world of a dictator who gains power through a distorted electoral procedure, and, on the other hand, by the subconscious, archetypal, biologically engaged psyche of the “man of the masses”. It is shown that this interpersonal, functional inseparability of the “grand I” of the dictator and the “collective WE” of the human mass is based, including, and not least, on the archetypes of evil, which in the modern “infernal culture” can be openly imposed, philosophical legitimized in totalitarian societies. The mental “toolkit” is listed, thanks to which the psycho-social phenomenon of evil functions within individual psyches and is integrated into the social phenomenon. It is pointed out the ontological foundations of the phenomenon of evil, which is based on the fundamental ability of a person to subjectively evaluate anything (Soloviov, 2015) and, guided by this evaluation, through his motor (muscular) acts, translate the contents of the individual psyche into the information content of sociality
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