The captive mind in terrible times or the fight for clearing the mind Cover Image

Mintea captivă în vremuri de urgie sau lupta pentru limpezirea minții
The captive mind in terrible times or the fight for clearing the mind

Author(s): Anton Carpinschi
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Sciences, Politics and society, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions
Published by: Editura Institutul European
Keywords: captive mind; cognitive warfare; therapeutic self-reflexivity; seven steps in the fight for clearing the mind;

Summary/Abstract: This essay serves as an Introduction to a future editorial project about the captive mind in terrible times. Inspired by the reading of The Captive Mind, the book by the Polish anti-communist writer Czesław Miłosz, the author explores the syndrome of the captive mind through his own life experiences in Romanian society before and after the fall of the totalitarian communist regime. Confronted, however, with post-Soviet political-military expansionism in search of a new world order, we are once again exposed to a cognitive war of conquest and manipulation of minds and, implicitly, to the captive mind syndrome. Using the therapeutic resources of self-reflexivity, the author outlines seven steps in the personal fight for clearing his mind

  • Issue Year: X/2022
  • Issue No: 2 (36)
  • Page Range: 5-25
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Romanian