Library of Social Science Book Exhibits

10/07/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj3KnigOR9k

THE WEAVERS. The beginning of the Sixties.

2013 Folk Alliance International Living Lifetime Achievement Award recipient The WeaversThe Elaine Weissman Lifetime Achievement Awards are presented each ye...

09/14/2024

The origins of rock 'n' roll:

Deluxe edition of Fats Domino's greatest hits including "My Girl Josephine", "I'm Ready" and more..♫ Listen to the full best of on YouTube → http://bit.ly/2B...

07/25/2024

Never was so much made out of so little. The emptiness of mass-culture.

May Pang reflects on her role in John Lennon's "lost weekend," her relationship with Yoko Ono, Julian Lennon, her new documentary and the Beatles.

06/26/2024

Warfare is about killing and dying. This much we know. We ordinarily emphasize the role of killing. We suggest that the institution of war revolves rather around dying. The objective of war is the death of the soldier. Warfare is an institution that produces corpses.

05/28/2024

Mei Ha is screaming wildly because I forgot to close the refrigerator door after removing from soda. She'just closed it herself. She equated forgetting to close the refrigerator door with a Green tragedy.

Now she says I need a wheelchair because I forgot to close the refrigerator door. Psychotic;

She goes into these absurd rages periodically. Compares mte with Joe Biden. I'm in much better shape than him, and I just had an intense four hour conversation.

No she's just shut up and is watching something on the internet. The storm has passed, and she'll for what she said in fifteen minutes,

05/24/2024

The obsolete fantasy of THE GOODNESS OF "THE PEOPLE."

03/11/2024

Mei Ha says "all I do is write books." Something like Ernest Hemingway. But I'm not so good at washing dishes. And after all, what do I do compared with Joe Biden.

03/04/2024

https://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/newsletter/posts/2017/2017-10-26-flr2.html

Wilhelm Reich took Freud’s theory of the sexual origins of neurosis seriously, and sought to do something about it. Freud saw therapy as “making conscious the unconscious”—liberating sexuality from repression, but then helping the patient to control or sublimate his or her sexual impulses. R...

03/03/2024

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Richard Koenigsberg received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and formerly taught at the New School. For the past 40 years, Dr. Koenigsberg has been writing and lecturing on the psychological sources of war and genocide. He is the author....

02/22/2024

Balancing the Scales of Death

The motto or slogan of the Third Reich was “obedience unto death.” The duty of each and every German was to be willing to die for the nation when asked to do so. Not a single German was exempt from this obligation.

But what about Jews? Would they survive in "warm concentration camps?" The purpose of the Holocaust was to balance the scales of death. As German men, women and children were compelled to die for the nation, so Jewish men, women and children would be compelled to die.

The death of German human beings and death of Jewish human beings were two sides of the same coin. In Hi**er’s mind, what kind of world would it be with so many Germans dead and so many Jews alive? If Germans had to die, so Jews too would have to die—o balance the scales of death.

01/19/2024

And what is a "follower" as compared to a "friend." There used to be a minimum of 5000. Now I have 5300, and I barely know any of them and they rarely respond to my posts. A WORLD IN FLAMES.

01/01/2024

Best way to understand a foreign culture is to watch their movies. Here's a great one I've seen many times. People can help being who they are.

12/25/2023

I mentioned to Mei Ha that a social theorist wrote a very important book in 1999, but that her ideas had not become well known. She hadn't FOLLOWED UP by writing more about her theory. She had put a great deal of effort into writing the book, and expected to become famous quickly.

I told Mei Ha that she had SHOT HER WAD. I don't think she knew what I meant. Can any of you out there in FACEBOOK LAND explain what I meant when told Mei Ha that this author had SHOT HER WAD?

I told Mei Ha that she had SHOT HER WAD.

12/17/2023

PSYCHOPATHY VERSUS PSYCHOSIS

In watching one of the "pundits" on the Internet last night, the man used the term "psychopath" to describe a political leader. I realized I've never used this term a single time in the 3655 Newsletters I've published during the last 10+ years. A term I frequently use is Political Psychosis.

The term psychopathy characterizes a form of behavior; the tendency to enact certain forms of behavior. Psychosis refers to a mental state which compels an individual to enact certain forms of behavior.

The pundits are so naive and lacking in imagination. They can't fathom that the political leader believes the bizarre ideas he puts forth. He thinks the politician is clever (or intelligent) and is "lying."

When Hi**er called Jews bacterium or viruses or parasites, he wasn't using these terms to "justify" killing Jews. He lived deeply within his paranoid, psychotic fantasies and was compelled to act upon them.

A paranoid individual who has psychotic fantasies can enact these fantasies. Or a person can have paranoid, psychotic fantasies, and just have them; not needing or wanting to enact them.

On the other hand, a paranoid leader may be compelled to enact his fantasies. The psychotic ideas are so powerful within him that he cannot resist enacting them. He becomes a leader when he can persuade other human beings to share his psychotic fantasies.



RICHARD KOENIGSBERG

PSYCHOPATHY VERSUS PSYCHOSIS

In watching one of the "pundits" on the Internet last night, the man used the term "psychopath" to describe a political leader. I realized I've never used this term a single time in the 3655 Newsletters I've published during the last 10+ years. A term I frequently use is Political Psychosis.

The term psychopathy characterizes a form of behavior; the tendency to enact certain forms of behavior. Psychosis refers to a mental state which compels an individual to enact certain forms of behavior.

The pundits are so naive and lacking in imagination. They can't fathom that the political leader believes the bizarre ideas he puts forth. He thinks the politician is clever (or intelligent) and is "lying."

When Hi**er called Jews bacterium or viruses or parasites, he wasn't using these terms to "justify" killing Jews. He lived deeply within his paranoid, psychotic fantasies and was compelled to act upon them.

A paranoid individual who has psychotic fantasies can enact these fantasies. Or a person can have paranoid, psychotic fantasies, and just have them; not needing or wanting to enact them.

On the other hand, a paranoid leader may be compelled to enact his fantasies. The psychotic ideas are so powerful within him that he cannot resist enacting them. He becomes a leader when he can persuade other human beings to share his psychotic fantasies.
RICHARD KOENIGSBERG

12/14/2023

I lived in a home with my family (mother, father and brother) for six years before I went to college. Mei Ha says it was MY MOTHER'S HOUSE. I never thought of it that way. It was my family's house. Apparently it was my "Mother House" (not my home) because my Mother took care of the finances. So, since I didn't PAY FOR IT, it wasn't my house. (But actually, if you think of it this way--from a financial point of view--it was mostly MY FATHER'S HOUSE, since he had the job that paid for it (he owned a shoe store).

WHAT DO YOU THINK? HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE SITUATION? Thank you for your input.

12/09/2023

so near, yet so far away.

10/28/2023

https://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/newsletter/posts/2016/2016-12-02-Bloom2.html
https://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/newsletter/posts/2016/2016-12-02-Bloom2.html

10/28/2023

https://www.youtube.com/

My online talks on YouTube.

Richard Koenigsberg received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and formerly taught at the New Sc...