\u2018Hatred\u2019 is one of those words that makes people uncomfortable, though we\u2019re quick to label it in others. Whether we\u2019re on the left or the right, we accuse our political opponents of being \u2018hatemongers\u2019. In popular culture, we hear all the time that someone \u2018hates himself\u2019, \u2018hates her parents\u2019, or \u2018hates their life.\u2019 There\u2019s a long tradition of theorizing hatred in depth psychology, starting with Freud\u2019s \u2018death drive\u2019 and Jung\u2019s \u2018shadow\u2019. Donald Winnicott warns that psychiatrists must be honest about feeling hatred toward their patients, just as parents must be honest about feeling hatred toward their babies. \u2018You may have to let your client hate you\u2019, supervisors tell their psychotherapy trainees.<\/p>\n
In this event, we\u2019ll attempt to shine just one small light into the abyssal darkness of hatred. The figure we\u2019ll strive to see there is another one that makes people uncomfortable, namely the lord of darkness himself: Satan. Despite Satan\u2019s continuing vitality in the western imagination, few have explored how the study of Satanism can illuminate the dynamics of hatred. Here we\u2019ll experiment with an archetypal approach to the phenomenon of Satanism today, ranging from Satanic panics and Luciferian politics to black metal music and demonic dreams or visions. Approaching this in a creative spirit, our hope is to understand both the dangers and opportunities in our own hatred just a little bit differently.<\/p>\n
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\u2018Hatred\u2019 is one of those words that makes people uncomfortable, though we\u2019re quick to label it in others. Whether we\u2019re on the left or the right, we accuse our political opponents of being \u2018hatemongers\u2019. In popular culture, we hear all the time that someone \u2018hates himself\u2019, \u2018hates her parents\u2019, or \u2018hates their life.\u2019 There\u2019s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":111126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[184,542],"mec_speaker":[3074],"class_list":["post-111125","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-lecture","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n