Papers on the Psychodynamics of Political Correctness and Related Phenomena

·         The following papers have been revised, in some cases extensively, to form chapters in my book Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness, which was published as a trade paperback in 2003 by Transaction Publishers, with a new preface, which is linked below. Linked here are reviews of Revolt of the Primitive by Louis Marinoff and James Glass.

·        Psychodynamics of Political Correctness

·        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

·         The Power of the Virgin: Psychodynamics of Sexual Politics and the Issue of Women in Combat (Draft Two)
      Part One: Dimensions of Sexual Scandal
     Part Two: The Psychodynamics and Power of Feminism

·         Masculinity and the Meaning of Work: A Response to Manichean Feminism

·        Narcissistic Emotion and University Administration: The Case of Political Correctness

 

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)

·         Preface to paperback edition of Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness

·         Response to Criticism of Masculinity and the Meaning of Work

·         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)

 

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