Article
Fear and Projection as Root Causes of War, and the Archetypal Energies "Trust" and "Peace" as Antidotes
AHP Perspective
(2009)
Abstract
I want to use this opportunity to discuss a phenomenon that continues to plague the human experience. It is called the game of war. War is perhaps the deadliest game that humanity has created. The conflict itself represents what appears to be opposing views about the way things should be. Each side believes that it is right and that its actions are justified. Each side therefore seeks to impose its views on the other or to defend its views against the other. Each side fears the other as an enemy and each side projects its fears onto its perceived “enemy.”
Keywords
- gy; Politics; Consciousness; Empowerment; Culture; Philosophy
Disciplines
- Civil Rights and Discrimination,
- Cognition and Perception,
- Comparative Politics,
- Critical and Cultural Studies,
- Ethics and Political Philosophy,
- Growth and Development,
- International and Intercultural Communication,
- Interpersonal and Small Group Communication,
- Law and Politics,
- Leadership Studies,
- Mass Communication,
- Military History,
- Military, War, and Peace,
- Multicultural Psychology,
- National Security Law,
- Other Education,
- Other History,
- Other International and Area Studies,
- Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures,
- Other Political Science,
- Other Psychology,
- Other Social and Behavioral Sciences,
- Other Sociology,
- Philosophy of Mind,
- Place and Environment,
- Political History,
- Political Theory,
- Social History,
- Social Influence and Political Communication,
- Social Psychology,
- Social Psychology and Interaction,
- Sociology of Culture,
- Theory and Philosophy,
- Theory, Knowledge and Science and
- United States History
Publication Date
Fall October, 2009
Citation Information
carroy u ferguson. "Fear and Projection as Root Causes of War, and the Archetypal Energies "Trust" and "Peace" as Antidotes" AHP Perspective (2009) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/carroy_ferguson/14/