[NYTr] Koenigsberg lectures on Psychology of War - Jan 4, 11 - NYC

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sent by Orion Anderson
http://www.ideologiesofwar.com

Richard Koenigsberg will be giving a lecture at the New School for
Social Research on January 11, 2008 (see details below).

At the last session of our SEMINAR ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
OF WAR--taking place on Friday, January 4 at 6:45 PM--we will
reexamine themes we have discussed throughout the semester with a
presentation entitled DYING AND KILLING FOR THE SACRED IDEAL.

Our special guest will be Dr. Sy Coopersmith, board member of the
National Psychological Association of Psychoanalysis, Past President
of NPAP Association and Training Institute, and on the Editorial
Board of the Psychoanalytic Review.

Dr. Coopersmith is discussant at Richard's lecture at the New School.

We welcome everyone to attend, and especially those of you who have
participated in previous sessions as we have worked to try to come
to terms with these difficult issues.

Best regards,

Orion Anderson

Details on getting to Fordham University are directly below.

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SEMINAR ON WAR AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: DETAILS FOR ATTENDING Seminar
is scheduled for Friday, January 4, 2008 at 6:45 PM in Room 311

TRAVEL INFORMATION: To Reach Fordham University's Lincoln Center
Campus by Subway. The A, B, C, D, 1, and 9 subway trains all stop
at 59th Street/Columbus Circle. 60th Street is one block north of
59th Street. The campus is located one block west on 60th Street
at 113 W. 60th Street.

UPON YOUR ARRIVAL AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: At the entrance, simply
say you are attending the Seminar in Room 311. Take the escalator
to the 1st floor, then the elevator to the third floor. Turn left
when you get off the elevator. Room 311 is located near the end of
the hallway on the left.

For further information call Orion Anderson at 718-393-1104 or send
an email to oanderson at ideologiesofwar.com

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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 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.

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