Europe leading up to WWII The Theory Freud argued that the state had failed to live up to the moral standards it had set for its people This realization by the people is what we call disillusionment ID: 574532
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Disillusionment at Play
Europe leading up to WWIISlide2
The Theory
Freud argued that the state had failed to live up to the moral standards it had set for its people.
This realization by the people is what we call, “disillusionment.” (
OR loss of trust)Slide3
The Actions
People begin to take life into their own hands
now
that they realize they cannot wait for the state to take care of them. Their actions are seen in:
Surrealism
Existentialism
Women’s Suffrage
CommunismJazz AgeHollywoodSlide4
definition: the desire to unleash one’s subconscious to uncover the contradictions of everyday life
SurrealismSlide5
WARNING: MzG IS ABOUT TO GEEK OUTSlide6
EXISTENTIALISMDefinition
: A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts.Slide7
Existentialism is a Humanism
(1945)- Sartre
And when we say that man takes responsibility for himself, we say more than that -
he is in his choices responsible for all men
. All our acts of creating ourselves create at the same time an image of man such as we believe he must be. Thus,
our personal responsibility is vast, because it engages all humanity.
If I want, say, to marry and have children, such choice may depend on my situation, my passion, my desire, but by it I engage not only myself, but all humanity in the way of the monogamy. In fashioning myself, I fashion man. This helps us to understand some rather grandiloquent words like anguish, abandonment, despair.
The existentialist declares that man is in anguish, meaning that he who chooses cannot escape a deep responsibility for all humanity. Admittedly, few people appear to be anxious; but we claim that they mask their anguish, that they flee it. Slide8
Women Speak Out
During WWI, women entered the workforce while men went to war.Slide9
... but then the men came home...Slide10
Think about this...
In the first poster, why did the government want women to work in the factories?
What kind of words did they use?
In the second image, what are the consequences of women gaining more independence through the right to vote (suffrage)?Slide11
Women's Suffrage
Women earn suffrage in the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, Sweden and Austria following WWI. Slide12
Oh, yea, they also let looseSlide13
Communism
1924 Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin takes control of the Communist Party.
Unsuccessful uprisings in Germany, Hungary, Bavaria, and
Italy
Mao Zedong leads Chinese revolution Slide14
International eventsIndiaActive civil disobedience begins in 1920Mahatma Gandhi leads boycott over salt tax by British in 1930
China
Japan invades China during Chinese Civil
W
ar (1931 and 1937)