INTS 4948

Hatred and Group Conflict

David Levine

e-mail: dlevine@du.edu

What sense can we make of such hate-driven phenomena as genocide and terrorism? How can we understand racial, ethnic, religious, and gender violence? Why do people hate, and what determines the targets of their hate? In this course, we explore how human destructiveness emerges as a response to formative experiences that shape individual and group emotional life. We then consider how destructive impulses are transformed into hatred and violence, and how hatred and violence get directed toward groups, and toward individuals treated as representatives of groups.  We will consider the nature and meaning of group experience: how groups affect individual conduct, different types of groups, and the nature of the individual's attachment to groups.  The course combines case studies with a more general exploration of the nature and meaning of hatred and group experience. The emphasis in the course is on using psychodynamic ideas to understand hatred and group conflict.

Outline

Week 1

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: Understanding Hate

Riviere and Klein Part I (rt)

Hinshelwood Chapter 6 (rd)

Week 2

Part 1: Self and Identity

Part 2: Case

Bollas, Chapter 1 (rd)

S. Freud, Chapter 7 (rt)

Week 3

Part 1: Shame and Loss

Part 2: Identification with the Aggressor

A. Freud (rd)

Week 4

Part 1: The Hate System

Part 2: Cases

Gilligan (rt)

Week 5

Part 1: Violence

Part 2: Cases

Gilligan (rt)

Week 6

Part 1: The Paranoid Fantasy

Part 2: Cases

Week 7

Part 1: Regression in Groups

Part 2: Cases

S. Freud, Chapters I-IX (rt)

Volkan (1988) Chapters 2-4 (rd)

Kakar (rt)

Week 8

Part 1: Hate Groups

Part 2: Cases

Week 9

Part 1: Tolerance

Part 2: Cases

Levine 2002 (http://www.du.edu/~dlevine/recent_and_forthcoming_publicati.htm)

Rustin (rd)

Week 10

Part 1: Demanding Justice and Mourning Loss

Part 2: Review

Stein (electronic reserve)

Volkan (1997) Chapter 3 (rd)

Levine, 2004, Chapter 10 (rd)

rt = required text, rd = reserve desk;

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