Agerandet. Ett psykosocialt fundament för den politiska teorin, Bachelor thesis, Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Lund, Scania, Sweden 2014, 31+3 pp. Swedish. [lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/4229196]
- This thesis presents a psychosocial theory of human action, meant to explain man’s reactions to different social orders and help to understand how to create a better society. When man becomes an individual, he experiences an unbearable separateness from the world and from himself. This creates a longing for reunion that can be carried out in a love relation with another human or through action, which is spontaneous work with a physical object. Man is acting: if he initiates the action – that is if the idea to act comes from his own free mind – if he decides upon the action and if he carries out the action in physical work. If someone else takes over one of the three steps, man becomes alienated and sticks to one of three methods of self-deception: escapism, sadism and masochism. Modern society is to be understood as divided into three separate spheres – leisure, work and politics – and since man is alienated in the latter two, man becomes alienated from the processes of work and politics and his prime goal becomes the masochistic act of consumption. The solution to man’s alienation is the abolition of society’s separateness through the abolition of the state and capitalism.