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Lurie Describes PsychePolitics<\/a><\/p>\n PsychePolitics applies psychology to politics. It goes far beyond the usual image creation of traditional political psychology. Rather, it traces our path from birth, through family, into the unconscious, and then out into the world\u2013the political world. PsychePolitics explains what politicians think and do that comes from their unconscious pasts, usually misapplied to the adult world of real problems, in particular political problems to be solved in an endurable way.<\/p>\n The goal of PsychePolitics is to broaden and deepen the political discussion by adding the perspective of political psychoanalysis. As readers of this Internet Newspaper\/Blog compose their own psychepolitical contributions, we will all learn more. More and more, our political decisions will be adult and rational. As the general population learns how to \u201chear with the third ear\u201d, as psychiatrist do, they will be less and less influenced by politicians\u2019 notions of what is best. Ultimately, people will be able to elect leaders who will truly benefit society, rather than those with impractical, personal, utopian ideologies of what is best.<\/p>\n This newspaper posts articles to which viewers can make comments. More interested viewers may send more elaborate Letters to the Editor to offer their opinions of the subject of a given article\/post. Finally, very interested readers may publish Op-Ed\/Posts of their own, to which others may respond with comments or letters to the editor. Eventually, there will be a body of knowledge allowing for more refinement of PsychePolitics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PsychePolitics Lurie Describes PsychePolitics PsychePolitics applies psychology to politics. It goes far beyond the usual image creation of traditional political psychology. Rather, it traces our path from birth, through family, into the unconscious, and then out into the world\u2013the political … Continue reading