Alan Bass, PhD
Freud on Hatred, Aggression, Sadism, and Violence
June 21-22, 2025
Kinzie Hotel
20 West Kinzie Street, Chicago
& ZOOM
Alan Bass, PhD is a practicing analyst in New York City. He is a training analyst and faculty member at IPTAR, and is also on the graduate philosophy faculty of The New School for Social Research. He is the author of three books (Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros; Interpretation and Difference: The Strangeness of Care; and Fetishism, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis: The Iridescent Thing) and the translator of four books by Jacque Derrida. He is one of the joint recipients of the JAPA 2021 best paper award for "Murderous Racism as Normal Psychosis: The Case of Dylann Roof), and is one of the internationally recognized Freud scholars invited to participate in a special issue of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis in honor of the publication of the Revised Standard Edition.
Seminar Title :Freud on Hatred, Aggression, Sadism, and Violence
Seminar Description: The seminar will trace Freud's thinking on aggression, sadism, and violence. It will show how understanding these issues in terms of individual psychodynamics leads to a psychoanalytic social theory, relevant to today's world conflicts.
Readings:
Totem and Taboo, Chap. 4, SE 13.
"Instincts and Their Vicissitudes," SE 14.
"Thoughts for the Times on War and Death," SE 14.
Beyond the Pleasure Principle, SE 18.
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, SE 18.
The Ego and the Id, Chaps. 3,4,5. SE
Civilization and its Discontents, SE 21.
Why War? SE 22.