A newly identified pathology, described in "Psychodynamics of Political Correctness," in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 33, No. 2, 1997. The author of the paper, Oakland University professor Howard S. Schwartz, recently completed a full-length book on the subject, The Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness.

Political correctness represents a regression in university functioning in which paternal influences are repudiated and a biparental model of authority is replaced by one revolving around a primordial conception of the mother. Paternal influences are those which represent the engagement with external reality, and regression to the primordial mother is therefore a rejection of external reality. Aspects of university functioning that are explained by this model include the inversion of valuation, the assault against the white males, the subordination of rationality in decision making, the balkanization of the university, the drive to the extreme, and the anomaly of female power.

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