Papers on the Psychodynamics of Political Correctness and Related Phenomena

These are chapters in my book Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness, Transaction Publishers, (2003) with a new preface. Linked here are reviews of Revolt of the Primitive by Louis Marinoff and James Glass.

Scenes from a Sexual Holy War (pdf)

Psychodynamics of Political Correctness (pdf)

The Sin of the Father: Reflections on the Roles of the Corporation Man, The Suburban Housewife, Their Son, and Their Daughter in the Deconstruction of the Patriarch (pdf)

Preface to paperback edition

Published Papers and Reviews

Deconstructing My Car at the Detroit Airport

Organization in the Age of Hysteria

Political Correctness and Organizational Nihilism

Organization and Meaning: A Multilevel Psychoanalytic Treatment of the Jayson Blair Scandal at The New York Times (with Larry Hirschhorn)

The Succession of Orthodoxies about Sexual Difference:A Review of Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality, by Kingsley R. Browne

The Remembrance of Things Past in Organization Theory A Review of Memory as a Moral Decision, by Steven P. Feldman

Review of Blinded by the Right, by David Brock

Working Papers

The Clash of Moralities in the Program of Diversity

Reality and Truth in the Politically Correct Organization:
The Case of the Burkett Memo Debacle at CBS News

Religion against Itself: Psychodynamics of Some Peculiar Television Commercials Produced by the United Church of Christ (pdf)

Antioch against Itself: Transformation of the Meaning of Antioch College (pdf)

 

Papers on Organizational Decay

Revised versions of the following papers appear in my book Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay: The Theory of the Organization Ideal. (New York University Press. Paperback edition 1993)

Narcissism Project and Corporate Decay: The Case of General Motors

On the Psychodynamics of Organizational Disaster: The Case of the Space Shuttle Challenger

Organizational Disaster and Organizational Decay: The Case of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration