They serve to realign people to groups whose norms and expectations they have confounded. There is no point in looking for deeper, 'real' motives behind these verbal accounts An account is not just another defence mechanism to deal with guilt, shame or other psychic conflict after an offence has been committed; it must, in some sense, be present before the act. That is I must say to myself, "If I do this, what will I then be able to say to myself and others?
Such internal soliloquies are not private matters. On the contrary: accounts are learnt by ordinary cultural transmission, and are drawn from a well-established, collectively available pool. An account is adopted because of its public acceptability. The denials we see are those offered in the expectation that they will be accepted. Everything in that section wasn't just hugely interesting and informative, but also seemed like case accounts of the denials of perpetrators exposed by the metoo movement.
If you know an abuser, you will find much of this section familiar, and it might make sense of previously unanswerable problems. Rapists, for instance, don't get themselves and their victims drunk and they mistakenly proceed on the basis of misunderstood consent; they get themselves and their victims drunk because they know it's an excuse that will get them off the hook in a court of law and in fact there's other evidence to support this specific example.
Here he applies it to societies: governments don't mistakenly perceive black people, for example, as more dangerous, and then accidentally create police forces with the arms and permission to routinely exterminate them for minor law violations; they use this as an excuse after the fact to continue racist programs against black people to keep them in a subservient societal position.
Governments don't mistakenly take masses of indigenous children from their families to place them in residential schools or white families for their own good--industries don't accidentally continue environmentally and potentially biospherically destructive practices in the noble intent to maintain high quality jobs--etc.
Hmm, who does that remind me of? To be co-operative perpetrators or complicit bystanders for years requires a sense of the world in which the others' presence is hardly recognized. They get what they deserve, not because of what they do, but because of who they are. The principle of social justice does not depend on your moral awareness of people like you--but your readiness to extend the circle of recognition to unknown and even unlikable people who are not at all like you.
This one needs to be blown up to point type and printed on the side of every fifth building in the world. No one needs to be Nice, to be likeable, to placate or flatter, in order to deserve justice and human rights. You can be difficult and angry and still, on the basis of being a living human being, deserve an equal measure of justice for crimes against you.
View all 4 comments. Mar 09, Mary marked it as to-read. Referred to in the "New Jim Crow". Expensive, though, and no Kindle edition. Try the library. Every now and then a book comes along which changes the way you think. This is one of them. Cohen searches for the truth and it's not very nice. He delves into why we lie, to ourselves, to others, to preserve the life we like to think we're living.
As a psychologist Cohen has evaluated how we so much want to maintain our self identity of being that good person that we construct a world that suits us. In this book various issues are covered in the chapters and chapters six and seven on how we avo Every now and then a book comes along which changes the way you think. In this book various issues are covered in the chapters and chapters six and seven on how we avoid the humanitarian request were so good my own work in this area relied on Cohen's insights.
Peter Singer ought to read this book. Read it if you enjoy something concerning human nature to think over. Nov 13, Kony rated it liked it. This is partly a primer in moral psychology, partly a synopsis of 20th-century atrocities. He examines common ways we mentally adapt to personal trauma -- then extrapolates to explain the responses or lack thereof of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders to mass suffering.
I enjoyed the later chapters in which he analyzes shaming tactics used by Amnesty et al, "pornography of pain" debates triggered by This is partly a primer in moral psychology, partly a synopsis of 20th-century atrocities.
I enjoyed the later chapters in which he analyzes shaming tactics used by Amnesty et al, "pornography of pain" debates triggered by war photos, feel-good charity schemes, and "banal" heroes who risked their necks for strangers. This material is illuminating, though not original, and partly atones for earlier sections wasted on Freud. But in applying concepts to a wide panoply of cases, Cohen swaps depth for breadth. He leaves us with a vague sense that he's onto something, but without grounds for a robust intellectual or emotional commitment to his message.
Jun 01, Kidada rated it really liked it Shelves: history-memory , violence-trauma. This is a fantastic text for someone researching past atrocities and the ways historians do and do not write about, like I am. It is also quite timely to make sense of the current political order. The maneuvers, the denials, disavowals, lies, and B. I'd love to see 2nd edition updated for today. Mar 10, Pers3phonee added it. Cohen's theories of denial and acknowledgement seem to be more and more relevant with each day; hence, I wish the content of this book was taught at school.
Five stars for the authors deep discussions of an immensely important topic. He clarifies the differences between the types of denial and makes recommendations based on their distinctive beha Five stars for the authors deep discussions of an immensely important topic.
He clarifies the differences between the types of denial and makes recommendations based on their distinctive behaviors. The author makes strong statements against post-modern ideas that truth is relative. Torture and murder are universal wrongs despite what people claim about unique situations in different cultures. Unfortunately, much of the book is academic discussion. Some of the issues that I found were: 1 Very long lists in parenthesis. These lists break up the flow of the text.
Sorry, I am giving a long list here too. Jan 04, Muhammad Ahmad rated it really liked it Shelves: politics , sociology. Also, the extended discussion on Freudian analysis is dated and quite superfluous. Cognitive science is far more illuminating in this score. Apr 12, Edward Sullivan rated it really liked it Shelves: adult-nonfiction , genocide , psychology , race-and-racism , war , world-history , sociology , oppression , human-rights. A provocative, wise, impressively wide-ranging treatment of the topic, which tragically seems more relevant now than ever.
Cohen explores denial in a wide variety of forms from the individual to the institutional to the social. It is astounding the different ways that humans have developed to deny anything that is unpleasant to them.
Cohen points out that the consequences of denial are denied by those in denial. Yet people may still feel guilty about this nonetheless.
What is good about this book is that it draws connections between those different forms. So they are not seen in isolation from one another, but form Cohen explores denial in a wide variety of forms from the individual to the institutional to the social.
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