Study On Lasswell's Political Personality Theory

The research on the Lasswell's Political Personality Theory doesn't have received the attentions of the domestic academic circle. The most remarkable characteristic of it is that he utilizes the Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory in the politics research area in order to analyze the formation as well as the classification of the political personality. The Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory is the theory tool and the foundation of the Lasswell's Political Personality Theory, and the Lasswell's Political Personality Theory is a rationale development and creation. In view of the fact that there is no special study about this theory in the domestic political science academic circle. This article, in the related original works reading foundation, is a more detailed elaboration and analysis to the Lasswell's Political Personality Theory's theory tool, the research technique, the content. And it makes a the significance and flaws analysis as a whole, thus manifests the unique value of the Lasswell's Political Personality Theory.This article mainly includes six parts.The preface mainly elaborates the significance of this topic and the present situation of this research. Since the personality and the political activity's relations have been paid attention for by the overseas scholars, Lasswell is one of the forerunners. But the special study about the Lasswell's Political Personality Theory cannot be seen anywhere in the domestic academic circle. However, this part of theories take the Lasswell political thinking essential constituent, and the domain of political psychology is worth making correspondingly analysis.The first chapter mainly discusses the background in which the Lasswell's Political Personality Theory forms. From the history, the thought and academic experience angles, this article tries to unfold the effect factors of the Lasswell's Political Personality Theory in the 30s and the 40s of the 20th century.The second chapter analyzes the theory tool and the research techniques. The free association law and the personality theory of the Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory are the theory tool's main body. In the research technique aspect, this article carries on Lasswell's groundbreaking utilization of life historical data as well as thorough interview law in the political personality research the key points.The third chapter is a primary coverage combing with an analysis about the content and divides into three. The first section elaborates the content that how the political personality forms, has promulgated a most important theory viewpoint that the political personality formation is the personal motive transposes to the public affairs in the result. The second section mainly introduces the Lasswell's political personality type division briefly. Lasswell divides the political personality into the agitators, the administrators, and the therapists. His research on Lincoln's political personality is a good example for his theory viewpoints. The third section unifies the part to the Lasswell politics personality theory and the real politic, namely "prevention politics". This important theory viewpoint is taken more detailed elaboration and a brief evaluation to it. The second chapter constitutes the main body of this article together with the third chapter.The fourth chapter makes a objective evaluation to the Lasswell's Political Personality Theory in a whole.The conclusion part makes a affirmation to the Lasswell's Political Personality Theory, then proposes that the Chinese politics psychology research as well as the political personality research needs to obtain the more attentions.