From: "Orion Anderson" <libraryofsocialscience-AT-earthlink.net> To: <nietzsche-AT-driftline.org> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:46:29 -0500 Subject: [Nietzsche] Dying & Killing for Love: Lecture at the New School for DYING AND KILLING FOR LOVE Lecture by Richard A. Koenigsberg, Ph. D. Co-sponsored by the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) and the Philosophy Department of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research Moderator, Mathias Beier. Discussant, Sy Coopersmith Friday, January 11, 2008, 8 PM Theresa Lang Auditorium of the New School (2nd Floor) 55 West 13th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenue), New York City _____ What is the nature of the human attraction to warfare? What psychological processes transform killing, destruction and the maiming of human bodies into a good thing? War is conceived as a good thing because people die and kill in the name a beloved object, one's nation. After the Viet Nam war, Americans turned away from the ideology of warfare, leading enemies of the United States to believe that America lacked the will to face a military confrontation. Bin Laden proclaimed that the United States was weak and decadent. The Bush administration waged war in order to demonstrate that just as radical Moslems killed and died for their sacred ideal (Allah), so Americans would kill and die in the name of their nation and its sacred ideal, freedom and democracy. According to the ideology of warfare, bad things (killing, destruction and the maiming of human bodies) become good things because they are undertaken in the name of one's beloved nation and its sacred ideals. Collective forms of violence articulate the project or shared fantasy of sacrificing human beings in the name of entities or ideas conceived as greater than the self. _____ For information on workshops, seminars and lectures presented by Richard Koenigsberg, please call 718-393-1081. _____ Richard Koenigsberg received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and formerly taught at the New School. INFORMATION AGE PUBLISHING recently released new editions of his books: Hitler's Ideology: Embodied Metaphor, Ideology and History; The Nation: A Study in Ideology and Fantasy; and The Fantasy of Oneness and the Struggle to Separate: A Study in the Psychology of Culture. _______________________________________________ List address: nietzsche-AT-driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/nietzsche-driftline.org
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