Personality and Deviance - Development and Core Dynamics

Shoham presents existentialist and object-relationship personality theory using mythology as a projection of human behavior. Through the myth of Don Juan as well as the personality of Casanova, he highlights the biological parameter of the personality and the thought of Kierkegaard and Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. He concludes by relating the dynamics of personality to the predisposition of crime and madness.

List of contents

The Theory
Personality Types and Their Fixations
The Dynamics of the Core Personality
The Self, Choice, and Uniqueness
Rabbi Israel Ba'al Shem Tov, and the Maggid of Mazritsh
Soren Kierkegaard and Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
Casanova and Don Juan
Overview and Disruption
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Shlomo G. Shoham

Product details

• Authors: S. Giora Shoham, Shlomo Shoham, Shlomo Giora Shoham
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2000
• EAN: 9780275966836
• ISBN: 978-0-275-96683-6
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, The self, ego, identity, personality, Abnormal psychology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Psychology: Developmental