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Seminar Paper - Origins of Totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt - Ideology and Terror

Ideology and terror looks into the machinations of Totalitarian government. Arendt begins by comparing totalitarianism with other forms of political oppression, namely despotism, tyranny and dictatorship. She tries to define what makes a totalitarian government. Describing how it would invariably transform a society’s classes into masses, supplant the party system by mass movements, shifting the centre of power from the army to the police, and establishing a foreign policy almost solely aimed at world domination.

Fun with Freud

Our second lecture of HCJ and apparently we get to have some fun with Freud! The inventor of psychoanalysis and a “scientist” Freud’s theory boils down quite simply: you want to have sex with everyone and you want to murder everyone else.

He's judging all of us, and he's not impressed.

Much of Freud’s work is based around the existence of a subconscious. The place where repressed memories etc. are stored. Freud claimed that the unconscious is made up of three parts. The trivial mistakes of everyday life, perhaps most famously thought of as slips of the tongue or ‘Freudian slips’ these mistakes supposedly reveal hidden thoughts and motives from the subconscious. The second part is dreams, and the conclusions that can be made about our subconscious from studying them. And the third part are the symptoms of neurosis.

Freud’s sexual development theory is a lot of fun. He identified stages which can affect our behaviour in later life. The first stage (from birth to 18 months) is the oral stage. During this time we are fixated on oral pleasure I.e. sucking. Too much or little (see how usefully vague this is?) gratification during this stage results in oral habits such as, smoking, drinking or biting fingernails.

Hearst and Harmsworth

Our first focused (and I use the term lightly) lecture of the second year was a look at world and newspaper history of the early 20th century. More specifically, it was a look at William Randolph Hearst and Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe). Probably the most influential media-men of the time.

Hearst, we’ll think of him as the American media mogul, was essentially the inventor of the tabloid newspaper. The rising literacy rates of the time meant more of the working class could read, but this by no means meant there were up to ploughing their way through the walls of text that made up most broadsheets (hell, I’m supposedly well educated and I can barely stomach reading much of the telegraph, and I’m pretty sure the FT is all just freemason code…). As a result, he changed the formats of all of his papers, a hefty chunk of front pages, and entire papers were covered in striking, shocking and generally eye-catching pictures. The motto of the time was sensationalism, or ‘yellow journalism’ fierce battles were raging between various papers (on the pages of course, remember, the pen is mightier than the sword), each trying to outdo the others. Hearst’s stories could become unbelievable, sometimes literally. He also went about headhunting writers from other papers, in order to form his own crack squad.