Heidegger as a “dark Fuehrer?”
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Prof. Dr. mult. Hilarion G. Petzold asked me to publish this in The
Athenaeum Library of Philosophy
German readers may be interested.
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“BIOPSYCHOSOZIALE KULTURPROZESSE”.
(BIOPSYCHO-SOCIAL CULTURAL PROCESSES)
Geschichtsbewusste Reflexionsarbeit zu “dunklen Zeiten” und zu “proaktivem
Friedensstreben.”
Summary of the German text:
“Mentalization ” at the cutting edge of body, brain, societal reality:
“BIOPSYCHO-SOCIAL CULTURAL PROCESSES”. Historical reflexivity concerning “dark
times” aiming at proactive peacework - an essay. This essay concerning
“Integrative and transversal cultural work” is dealing with the topic of collective
and individual processes of “mentalization”, which are based on recursive
neurocerebral and sociocultural processes from which personal and collective
“mental representations” (Moscovici) are emerging. On the basis of the events in
the “Third Reich” it is shown how traditions of thinking infuse mentalization
processes, how e. g. the “idea of the Reich”, coming down from the times of
the Romans can create mythologizing “transmissions” (Bourdieu). Creation of
mythologies, antirationality, obscurantism then can lead to “mythotropic”
developments in societal climates, in which “dark Fuehrers” with “mythopathic”
personalities, a massive loss of the sense of reality and a pathological
craving for power are creating “new mythologies” that spellbind the masses, and
draw them into a malignant societal dynamics as it took place in the times of
German National Socialism. It is absolutely necessary, if one wants to learn
from history, to recognize this kind of pathological mythopathic developments
and to confront them by an active/proactive culture of peace, to counter them
by mentalization processes, that are building up a sustainable mentality of
peace.
Keywords: Mentalization, collective mental representations, mythopathic
personalities, Third Reich, Integrative Therapy and Cultural Work
