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We have over-valued our capacity for thought at the expense of ignoring those deep forces which drive us. We have done this at the individual level, but also at the social level. Our wider society - international, national, local and familial - is driven by powerful primitive forces which shape our human community. Our artists reflect these forces back to us. A weakness of democracy is that politicians too often collude with pathology instead ...

This book is an attempt to understand English society over the last seventy years, using a psychoanalytical perspective. It looks at the destabilising effect of war and other stresses, and the subsequent social reaction to such events. It contains an acknowledgment of the basic biology of the human race, and a plea that our given attributes be respected, particularly in the field of child nurture. The author is a long-term Quaker. That spiritu...