Hasidic Psychology: Making Space for Others

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transaction Introduction -- Introduction -- Part I: The Sociological Perspective -- Chapter 1: Salvation, Monism, and Social Contraction -- Salvation and Social Behavior Systems -- Monistic Theodicy and Social Contraction -- Monistic Contraction and Correction (Tikkun) -- Chapter 2: The Social Contract and Social Contraction -- The Guilt-Debt Contract -- The Issachar and Zebulun Contract -- The Ideological-Historical Roots of the Issachar and Zebulun Model -- The People of Form and the People of Matte -- Chapter 3: Contractional Alterism vs. Contractual Altruism -- Balanced (Symbiotic) Alter-centered Contraction and the Mutual-AidTradition -- Imbalanced (Parasitic) Alter-centered Contraction and the "Shnor"Tradition -- Alter-centered Salvation and Messianic Universalism -- Chapter 4: Structural Deviance and the Mono vs. Multiple Ideallabeling System -- Social Contraction and Organic Solidarity -- Social Contraction and Functional Reciprocity -- Chapter 5: Social Crisis and the Mono vs. Multiple Ideal-labeling System -- Supermaterialism, Leisure, and Deviance -- The Convergence of Zebulun and Issachar and the Emergence of Hasidism -- The Hasidic Relabeling Revolution -- Part II: The Sodal' Psychological Perspective -- Chapter 6: Alter-centered Individualism and Interpersonal Contraotion -- Interpersonal Contraction and Active Quietism -- The Principle of Mutual Emulation and the Anatomy of "Chutzpa" -- Chapter 7: The Prussian-Oedipal Father vs. the Maggid's Contracting Father -- Chapter 8: Assertiveness Training for " I or Thou" Behavior -- Chapter 9: Alterism, Individual Freedom, and ''Exclusion" Systems -- Absurd Freedom and Independence -- The Cursed Blessing of Enforced Freedom -- Intrusion and the Total Institution for Exclusion