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Join us for the next instalment of our Political Mind series, with a panel of speakers: Mark Goldblatt, Dr Anna Harvey, Prof. Mark Freestone and Prof. Fanny Guglielmucchi. 

The mind processes influences from internal drives, self-judgment, and external reality by making compromises, which lead to styles of functioning or symptom formation. Compromise formations are also evident in interpersonal transactions, as individuals, in small and large groups, advocate for positions within their relational contexts to enable coexistence between rival factions. More recently, in the context of political governance, compromises have come to be viewed as evidence of weakness, an abandonment of principles, hindering rather than facilitating the attainment of goals. Superego support for gratification of sadistic desires produces perverse pleasure in cruelty. Small or large groups that seek to function without the need for compromise lead to authoritarianism with pleasure in brutality. In this discussion, we examine the consequences of internal and interpersonal negation and distortion of compromise, which lead to sadism, cruelty, and perversion in individuals and to societal authoritarianism.

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