TY - JOUR AU - Hardie-Bick, James PY - 2016/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Escaping the Self: Identity, Group Identification and Violence JF - Oñati Socio-Legal Series JA - Oñati Socio-Legal Series VL - 6 IS - 4 SE - Thematic Articles DO - UR - https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/708 SP - 1032-1052 AB - <p>This article draws on the early work of Erich Fromm. In Escape from Freedom Fromm (1969 [1941]) directly addressed the psychological mechanisms of escape modern individuals employ to protect themselves from feelings of ontological insecurity and existential estrangement. The article builds on Fromm&rsquo;s analysis by discussing the significance of his escape mechanisms for understanding the dynamic psychological attractions of identifying with entitative groups. Fromm&rsquo;s work will be discussed in relation to Hogg&rsquo;s recent work on uncertainty-identity theory. The aim of the article is to examine the advantages of combining Fromm&rsquo;s psychoanalytic analysis with Hogg&rsquo;s uncertainty-identity theory and to highlight the potential this approach has for understanding why groups engage in violent and destructive behaviour.</p> <hr /><p>Este art&iacute;culo se inspira en las primeras obras de Erich Fromm. En El miedo a la libertad, Fromm (1969 [1941]) abord&oacute; directamente los mecanismos psicol&oacute;gicos de evasi&oacute;n que los individuos modernos emplean para protegerse de los sentimientos de inseguridad ontol&oacute;gica y distanciamiento existencial. Este art&iacute;culo se basa en el an&aacute;lisis de Fromm exponiendo el significado de sus mecanismos de evasi&oacute;n para entender las atracciones psicol&oacute;gicas din&aacute;micas de identificaci&oacute;n con grupos entitativos. Se analizar&aacute; la obra de Fromm en relaci&oacute;n con la obra reciente de Hogg sobre la teor&iacute;a de incertidumbre identitaria. El objetivo del art&iacute;culo es examinar las ventajas de combinar el an&aacute;lisis psicoanal&iacute;tico de Fromm con la teor&iacute;a de incertidumbre identitaria de Hogg, y destacar el potencial que tiene esta aproximaci&oacute;n para comprender por qu&eacute; los grupos adoptan un comportamiento violento y destructivo.</p> <p><strong>DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN</strong>: <a href="https://ssrn.com/abstract=2875737" target="_blank">https://ssrn.com/abstract=2875737</a></p> ER -