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Contemporary discourse imagines that power emanates from “up above.” But why do people elevate other human beings into positions where they have the capacity to dominate, oppress and perform acts of violence? This seminar explores the human desire to create and support powerful leaders: how political realities are constructed in order to actualize fantasies of omnipotence.
ATTEND THE SEMINAR
This presentation—sponsored by Ignatius University
and its Dean, who is Ambassador to the United Nations—will be attended by representatives of NGOs at the UN.
A few additional places are available for people who
wish to attend. Permission is required. Please send an email to oanderson@libraryofsocialscience.com or call 718-393-1081.
Library of Social Science Websites Currently Feature the Following Online Publications by Richard Koenigsberg:
Richard Koenigsberg is an author, lecturer and teacher focusing on the roots of collective forms of violence. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. He is a Faculty Member of the Institute for the Study of Violence at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. New editions of his books—Hitler's Ideology: Embodied Metaphor, Fantasy and History and The Nation: A Study in Ideology and Fantasy—recently have been released by Information Age Publishing. |