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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Examples -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Sociology, Racism and Psychoanalysis: An Introduction -- 2 The Concept(s) of Race(s) and Racism(s) -- Introduction -- Race and the other -- Race as 'containment' -- So, what is racism? -- Identifying racism: structural inequalities -- Institutional and individual racisms: attitude and action -- Summary -- 3 New Racism(s) for Old -- New racism(s) for old -- Ethnic boundaries and the culture of difference -- A note on diaspora -- Summary and working definitions -- 4 Sociology, Racism and Modernity -- Introduction -- Modernity and the Holocaust -- The 'gardening' state -- Racism as social engineering -- Strangers: the post-race 'Other'? -- Summary -- 5 Freud, Racism and Psychoanalysis -- Introduction -- Why psychoanalysis? -- Freud, language and interpretation: the talking cure -- Freud's mind(s) -- Structuring the mind: id, ego and superego -- Mechanisms of defence -- Das Unheimlich: Freud, philosophy and projection -- Summary -- 6 The Frankfurt School: Paranoid Projection and the Persecuted Other -- Introduction -- Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Eric Fromm: Fear of Freedom -- Studies in prejudice -- Conclusion: towards a psychoanalytic explanation of racism -- 7 Colonial Identity and Ethnic Hatred: Fanon, Lacan and Zizek -- Introduction -- Fanon and the critique of colonial discourse -- Fanon, Sartre and psychoexistentialism -- Jacques Lacan and the mirror stage -- Do we fear the theft of our own enjoyment? -- Desiring whiteness -- Lacanian and Kleinian interconnections: moving on… -- Conclusion -- 8 Melanie Klein, Racism and Psychoanalysis -- Introduction -- Phantasy -- Splitting the self -- Between good or bad: the paranoid schizoid position -- Between good and bad: the depressive position -- Depressive anxiety, envy and hatred -- Summary.

The article analyzes the relationship between freedom and happiness, in particular whether freedom makes people happy. The problem of freedom and happiness in the modern world affects the life of every person. Utilitarians argue that freedom, understood as the absence of constraints, increases people's happiness, as J. S. Mill argued in On Liberty. More recently there have been a number of empirical studies examining whether happiness levels are higher in societies that have more liberty. These studies are critically examined and some of the difficulties of establishing whether it is liberty or some other closely-related phenomena, such as democracy or development, that cause happiness are discussed. The article presents data from Freedom House and the Happy Planet Index to attempt to determine the effect of liberty on happiness. This enables us to determine the place of freedom in the hierarchy of values and understand its place in society and its significance for the individual.