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SCIENTIFIC MEETING: Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Mario Rendon, MD
WHY WAR? A Psychoanalytic Exploration
In 1931, the Institute for Intellectual Cooperation invited Einstein to a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas about politics and peace with a thinker of his choosing. He selected Sigmund Freud and his question was Why War? At the center of the corresponding discussion, Einstein proposed might and right, a duality that Freud, interestingly, substituted for violence and right.
Freud was aware that might is a natural category as opposed to violence that, like right, is historical. If we agree that historical imperatives are reversible as opposed to their natural counterparts, there is more hope in Freud’s answer than one can gather from his letter: “Conflicts of interest between man and man are resolved, in principle, by the recourse to violence. It is the same in the animal kingdom, from which man cannot claim exclusion.” But then he adds: “nevertheless, men are also prone to conflicts of opinion, touching, on occasion, the loftiest peaks of abstract thought, which seem to call for settlement by quite another method.” This method is of course compromise, based on altruistic, empathic, and uniquely human solidarity. This alternative, I argue, is evolutionarily the female attribute.
In this presentation I propose that here Freud unwittingly parsed out the instinctual dispositions of women as separate from that of men. This difference Freud sought to find throughout his work but failed. With the exception of the legendary Amazons, war has always been the business of men. I will venture into the evolutionary field to support the proposition that men and women have opposite instinctual dispositions, Freud’s drives, a fact that helps understand what Horney meant by a morality of evolution. If this perspective is correct, a new dialectical theory of the self is possible.
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Mario Rendon, M.D., Certificate in Psychoanalysis, American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Past Dean: American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Past Editor: American Journal of Psychoanalysis. Clinical Associate Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Faculty, Supervisor, Training and Supervising Analyst: American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Member: American Psychoanalytic Association & Centro Psicoanalitico de Madrid.
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Scientific Meetings Committee:
Arthur A. Lynch, PhD, Chair; Lisa Mounts, LCSW & Kenneth Winarick, PhD
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Scientific Meetings of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis
2016 – 17
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Please mark your calendar for these dates. We are looking forward to seeing you.
Thursday, November 17, 2016 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Topic: WHY WAR? A Psychoanalytic Exploration
Presenter: Mario Rendon, MD
Thursday, December 15, 2016 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Topic: Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing Behaviors: A Psychodynamic Approach
Presenter: Leon Hoffman, MD
Thursday, February 23, 2017 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Topic: TBA
Presenter: Theodore Jacobs, MD
Thursday, April .., 2017 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Topic: TBA
Presenter: TBA
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KAREN HORNEY CENTER AUDITORIUM
329 East 62nd Street (Bet. 1st & 2nd Avenues), NYC 10065
ALL COLLEAGUES ARE WELCOME
Free Admission