Studies of Life Positioning: A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography (Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology)

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Series Foreword
1 A Psychobiography of Life Positioning
	Author’s Introduction
	What Is Life Positioning?
	Psychobiography and Life Positioning
	Position Exchange and Positioning and Repositioning
		Position Exchange
		Life Positioning and Repositioning
		Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Life Positioning
	Life Positioning Analysis (LPA) as Sociocultural Psychobiography
	Note
	References
2 Stanley Milgram’s Penchant for Revealing and Concealing
	Author’s Introduction
	From “Hide” and “Seek” to “Conceal” and “Reveal”
	Early Life
	Higher Education
	Milgram at Yale: Studies in Obedience to Authority
	Why Did Milgram Conduct His Famous Experiments On Obedience to Authority?
	References
3 Pierre Elliott Trudeau and the 1970 October Crisis in the Canadian Province of Quebec
	Author’s Introduction
	The Controversy Concerning the October Crisis of 1970 and the War Measures Act
	A Bicultural Childhood and Jesuit Education
		Trudeau’s Childhood
		Trudeau’s Schooling and Adolescence
	Young Trudeau as a Right-Wing Corporatist Revolutionary
	Trudeau’s Educational and Personal Repositioning
		New Perspectives and Possibilities at Harvard
		Personalism in Paris
		London, Laski, Federalism, and Pluralism
		Globe-Trotting and Self-Testing
	Further Years of Experimentation, Self-Development, and Searching for Possibilities
	From Trudeaumania to the October Crisis
	Why Trudeau Invoked the War Measures Act: A Life Positioning Account
	References
4 Ernest Becker’s Quest for a Philosophical Anthropology By Way of Human Evil
	Author’s Introduction
	Becker’s Life and Career Before SFU
	Becker’s Scholarship Before SFU: Framing His Philosophical Anthropology
	Becker’s Scholarly Breakthrough at SFU: Linking Fear of Death With Human Evil
	Connecting Becker’s Life and Work: A Life Positioning Storyline
	Note
	References
5 The Symmetrical Relationship and Conjoint Agency of Dorothy Burlingham and Anna Freud
	Author’s Introduction
	The Early Life of Dorothy Burlingham
	The Early Life of Anna Freud
	Dorothy and Anna Together
	A Dual Life Positioning Storyline
	References
6 The Asymmetrical, Manipulative Relationship Between Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner
	Author’s Introduction
	Carlisle: The Sociocultural and Institutional Positioning of Native Americans
	Pop Warner Before Carlisle
	Jim Thorpe Before Carlisle
	Jim and Pop at Carlisle
		The Relationship Between Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner
	The Sordid Saga of Thorpe’s Olympic Medals: A Life Positioning Storyline of Racism, Privilege, and Injustice
		The 1912 Olympics
		The Aftermath
		The Cover-Up
		Asymmetrical Legacies
	A Summary, Dual-Life Positioning Storyline
	References
7 Revisitings, Reflections, and Critical Considerations
	Author’s Introduction
	The Basic Premises of Life Positioning as Sociocultural Psychobiography
	Why LPA Uses a Flexible Methodology
	Revisiting the Five Life Positioning Psychobiographies
		Reflections On the Single-Subject Studies
		Reflections On the Dual-Subject Studies
	Further Critical Considerations
	Psychology as the Life Positioning of Persons
	References
Index