Today we are publishing Richard's classic paper. Part I is below.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Introduction
- Defending the Body Politic Against the Force of Disintegration
- Welding the German People into One Body
- Killing Death
- Identification of Self and Nation
- The Nation as an Immortal Self
- The Final Solution as Denial of Death
Please read the paper on our website
Data supporting Richard's hypotheses are presented in Hitler's Ideology. Information on purchasing the book--and reviews--are directly below to the right.
Enjoy!
Mary Helen
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REVIEWS OF HITLER'S IDEOLOGY.
This work deserves to be an instant classic. With care and caution, Koenigsberg remains close to the data from which he adduces his theory. Koenigsberg's genius has unlocked many of the unconscious secrets of a timeless drama--Howard F. Stein, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism.
The best critical analysis in English of Hitler s thought.--Colin Day
An imaginative and important work.--Robert G. L Waite, author, The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler
"I wish to acknowledge the remarkable research of Koenigsberg, whose ideas on Nazism ar supported by an astonishing number of convergent quotations." Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, Intl. Review of Psychoanalysis
"Original & Impressive." Journal of Psychiatry & Law
This exciting book provides deep insight into the relationship between components of the human psyche and social policy. The amount of data Koenigsberg provides is overwhelming. The implications of what he writes are far-reaching--Ronald A. Brauner, The Reconstructionist
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I. Introduction
According to Freud’s theory of psychic determinism, there is no randomness in the life of the mind. Studying dreams, symptoms and slips-of-the-tongue, Freud concluded that whatever is uttered or expressed contains meaning.
I study ideology as if manifest content of a dream—to decipher the ideology’s latent content or unconscious meaning. I observe recurring images and metaphors within ideological content. Through systematic analysis of images and metaphors, it is possible to reveal the deep structure of an ideology.
Based on analysis of the images and metaphors contained within Hitler’s writings and speeches, I discovered that his ideology revolved around a fantasy about the body, more precisely, about the German body politic. Nazi actions represented the enactment of this bodily fantasy.
Hitler embraced Germany as an entity that could “live on.” He believed that the German nation had the potential to become immortal, except for the fact that it contained a force within working to destroy it: the Jew. The Nazi movement constituted a struggle to come to terms with this force of death threatening the life of Germany—the Jewish force of disintegration--by extinguishing it.
Ideologies are structures within society, but why do they exist? I seek to uncover the meanings of ideologies and the psychic work that they perform. I hypothesize that ideologies function as vehicles for working through deep-rooted psychological issues. Hitler’s ideology represented the medium through which he attempted to come to terms with the problem of death. Nazism constituted a fantasy about Germany as an immortal body.
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