Aug 30, 2008

Something to Kill and Die For: Seminar on Collective Violence

LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE NEWSLETTER

SOMETHING TO KILL AND DIE FOR: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Culture, Ideology & History

Richard A. Koenigsberg

Seminar Sponsored by the Human Services Center of the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists and the Philadelphia Jungian Professional Club

Date:

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Place:

The Ethical Society Building
1906 S. Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Time:

Registration: 12:30 p.m. Enrollment limited.

Program:

1:00pm to 5:00 p.m. (Light lunch provided).

Presenter:

Richard Koenigsberg, Ph.D.

Dr. Koenigsberg has pioneered a method for studying the ideas of political leaders through analysis of images and metaphors contained within their rhetoric. He seeks to uncover the ''hidden narratives'' that lie beneath the surface of culture and historical process.

For Information on Registering for the Seminar, click here:
https://www. ideologiesofwar. com/forms/ jung/

Program Objectives:

1. Gain familiarity with a method that enables one to uncover hidden narratives contained within ideological texts.

2. Analyze the symbolic meaning of ideological concepts such as "the enemy" and "defending the nation."

3. Understand how violence is conceived as righteous and necessary when undertaken in the name of a society's sacred ideals.

4. Understand how psychology can expand its role as a discipline and theory by interpreting events occurring outside the clinical situation.

For Information on Registering for the Seminar, click here:
https://www. ideologiesofwar. com/forms/ jung/

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 and is a Faculty Member at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. New editions of his books-Hitler' s Ideology: Embodied Metaphor, Fantasy and History, The Nation: A Study in Ideology and Fantasy and The Fantasy of Oneness and the Struggle to Separate: Towards a Psychology of Culture-recently have been released by Information Age Publishing.

For Information on Seminars and Lectures presenting by Dr. Koenigsberg, please contact Orion Anderson at 718-393-1104 or send an email to oanderson@libraryof socialscience. com.

For Information on the Philadelphia Jungian Professional Club and Its Seminar Series click here.

CE Credits: Continuing Education Credits are available for psychologists and social workers from the Human Services Center of the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists. LPC credits also available. This program provides Four (4) Hours of CE Credits.

This program is cosponsored by the Human Services Center of the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists and the Philadelphia Jungian Professional Club. The Human Services Center of the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor Continuing Education for psychologists. The Human Services Center of Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists maintains responsibility for the program and its content.


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