THE FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL PSYCHOSIS presents
Franco Fornari on the Psychology of War

Dear Colleague,

I am going to present a series of excerpts from Franco Fornari's The Psychoanalysis of War (click preceding link for information on purchasing from Amazon). This book, in my view, is the most significant ever written on the psychology of war.

With regards,
Richard Koenigsberg

War is a spectacular establishment of a general human situation whereby death assumes absolute value: the ideas for which we die have a right to truth, because death becomes a demonstrative process. This situation opens the chapter of the peculiar psychological problem of death as a criterion of truth, to which we shall have to return in order to clarify the mysterious epistemology of war, based on the postulate that what we die for is true, which is, however, contradicted by another postulate, namely, that what is victorious is true, whereby the victory is equated with what is true and right, and the vanquished with what is false and wrong.