Brainwashing¶
Lifton, R. J. (1953). Brainwashing. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China.
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- Thought-Terminating Cliché
- The concept was coined by psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton in Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism (1961) to describe one mechanism of ideological totalism in Chinese prisons and revolutionary universities: phrases such as "imperialist" or "capitalist" served as complete authoritative answers to any question into which they could be inserted, not because they addressed the substance but because the institutional norms of the setting treated their production as a conclusive move
This sourceLifton's account of the totalist label as the terminus of analysis, in his own words - such phrases 'become the start and finish of any ideological analysis'. Lifton's eight themes of ideological totalism, of which 'Loading the Language' is the sixth - the theme under which he describes the thought-terminating cliche, and in which he borrows Lionel Trilling's 'language of nonthought' for totalist speech.
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- The concept was coined by psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton in Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism (1961) to describe one mechanism of ideological totalism in Chinese prisons and revolutionary universities: phrases such as "imperialist" or "capitalist" served as complete authoritative answers to any question into which they could be inserted, not because they addressed the substance but because the institutional norms of the setting treated their production as a conclusive move
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