Beyond Caring charts the emotional and psychic consequences of sinking normal human relationships into an acid bath.
Now, as large middle classes in the West stagnate and billions elsewhere move out of poverty while harboring unrealizable dreams of prosperity, Rousseau's obsession with the psychic consequences of inequality seems even more prophetic and disturbing.
He quotes Kroc's message to the McDonald brothers, and though his rage is directed at "headstrong operators," the threat echoes with larger implications, the psychic consequences of a society's adoption of fast food: "We have found out... that we cannot trust some people who are nonconformists.
Behind the question of whether justice exists, there is another question that has important physical and psychic consequences: Does human dignity exist?
If men were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?
(This despite some dubious approaches, such as the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program, a $125 million, five-year program based on the theory that building emotional, mental, and spiritual resilience in soldiers before they go to war will protect them against the psychic and moral consequences of being in war).
The drive is a "frontier conception between the psychic and the somatic, like a psychic representative {Repräsentant} of the internal stimuli coming from the body and reaching the soul, like a measure of the labor demand imposed to the psychic as a consequence of its interconnection with the bodily" (Freud 1915, p.117).
I doubt that an Indo-Pak nuclear war would get beyond two or three or four bombs, but the consequences on every level — human, political, environmental, psychic — would be as bad as, say, the consequences of the First World War.
A pronounced emphasis on the "psychic structure of the individual," thus, became one of the primary consequences of modernity's shift from realism and human representation.
McLuhan wrote: "I am pleased to think of my own book The Gutenberg Galaxy as a footnote to the observations of Innis on the subject of the psychic and social consequences, first of writing then of printing".
Even though suicide and suicide attempts may be seen as a consequence of internal psychic conflicts, it is also clear that external factors play a significant role in the complex suicidal process.
