FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Richard Koenigsberg. Director
Andrew Hammer, Executive Director

Co-pilot's interpretation of Koenigsberg's ideas
Koenigsberg's thoughts about Co-Pilot

The fascinating thing about co-Pilot is that (by scanning the entire Internet), they are able to provide a summary and analysis of my ideas and theories. They do not judge my ideas. No matter how radical my ideas may are, co-Pilot does not know they are radical, simply presents the ideas.

Co-Pilot states that Koenigsberg explores "the deep-seated fantasies and unconscious motives that drive nations to engage in war," suggesting that warfare may be understood as a "form of psychopathology," where the willingness to kill, die and maim in the name of a nation is rooted in "profound psychological processes."

On some level, we know that the desire to wage war, killing and dying in the name of "nations," represents some sort of pathology or "sickness." But history books do not present war as a form of psychopathology. They document what happened, providing an "objective" account.

They don't present warfare as a "sickness." Wars have occurred since the beginning of civilization. Wars are part of our "world taken for granted." How can wars be characterized as a form of sickness? Unless we hypothesize that profound psychopathology (the willingness to die and kill for nations) lies at the heart of civilization.

Co-pilot states that in one of my seminal works, “Hitler’s Ideology,” I delve into embodied metaphors and hidden narratives within Hitler’s rhetoric, revealing the "biological fantasy at the heart of Nazism and the Holocaust." Koenigsberg argues that Hitler's actions and the resulting history were the consequence of Hitler's fantasy that by destroying the Jewish "disease," Germany "might live forever."

Well, we know this, are aware of Hitler's fantasy that Jews were a disease that had to be destroyed if Germany was to continue to "live" or "live on." Hitler believed this, but what does this mean? What was the nature of the Jewish disease? Why were Jews considered a disease?

At the essence of Hitler's thinking was his belief that Jews were a disease. Jews were "flowing into" Europe from the Soviet Union. So he abandoned his war against Great Britain in a struggle to destroy the source of the disease "Jewish-Bolshevism."

Conquering the Soviet Union? What did this mean? Hitler waged war against the Soviet Union because he believed the Soviet Union was the source of "Jewish bacteria."

War in the East, for Hitler, represented the desire to destroy Jewish bacteria before these bacteria flowed into and destroyed Germany. He believed it was necessary to destroy EVERY Jewish bacterium, not only in the Soviet Union, but everywhere in the world.

Germany didn't lose the war because of "mistakes" in strategy, but because Hitler was pursuing an "impossible dream:" His dream of killing the source of death (bacterium) so that the German body (politic) might live forever.