Power and innocence : a search for the sources of violence / Rollo May

Contents;

Part I
1. Madness and powerlessness
Powerless corrupts
Madness and society
Powerless and drugs
etc.

2. Innocence and the end of an era
The greening and the parching of America
Other forms of innocence

3. Language: The first casualty
The distrust of words
Obscenity and violence
Words and symbols
etc.

Part II
4. Black and impotent: The life of Mercedes
The missing anger
The rites of rebirth
Violence as life-destroying and life-giving

5. The meaning of power
Defining power
Power and the intellectuals

6. The power to be
Origins of power in childhood
The life of Oliver
Self-affirmation
etc.

7. Aggression
The meaning of aggression
Varieties of aggression
The psychology of aggression
etc.

8. Ecstasy and violence
Violence in literature
Ecstasy in war
The search for recognition

9. The anatomy of violence
The psychoneurological aspects of violence
Varieties of violence
Destructive violence
etc.

Part III
10. Innocence
The tragic day at Kent state
The guardsmen
Billy Budd's tragic flaw
etc.

11. The humanity of rebel
Civilization needs the rebel
Rebel and society: A dialectic
The artist as rebel
etc.

12. Toward new community
Farewell to innocence
"If I could have found my tongue"
Love and power
Toward a new ethic

Index : p. 275-283.