The Feeling of Certainty

1. Introduction: The Feeling of Certainty, Towards a Psychosocial Approach
Nikolay Mintchev, R. D. Hinshelwood

2. The Mentality of Conviction: Feeling Certain and the Search for Truth
Karl Figlio

3. What Is Subjectivity and How Can We Study It Empirically? Understanding the Feeling of Certainty Through Psychoanalysis and Ethnography
Nikolay Mintchev

4. Haunted by Uncertain Refrains
Stephen Frosh

5. Internal Racism: Belief in the Racist Mindset
M. Fakhry Davids

6. Being Racist: The Certainty of a Pathological Organisation of the Personality
R. D. Hinshelwood

7. ‘Instead of Trying to Help You, They Try to Screw You’: The Feeling of Certainty and the Mexican-Origin Border Patrol Agents
Natalia Hernández Jiménez

8. The Primitive Container of Fascism: Masculine Anxieties and Defences in Times of Trauma and Uncertainty
Christina Wieland

9. Gender Certainty as a Defence: Oedipal Conflict in Wartime Sexual Violence
Tamaki Noro

10. Collective Identities, Breivik and the National Container
Barry Richards

Keywords: Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Self and Identity, Political Sociology, Sociology of Racism