
Workshop on Belief and Misinformation
Current Research Scholars
We are fortunate to have the participation of these eight scholars in our current study group
Study Group Organizer: Marshall Alcorn Professor Emeritus, English and Human Sciences George Washington University
Principal Advisor: Karl Figlio Professor Emeritus, Psychoanalysis University of Essex, Clinical Associate, British Psychoanalytic Society
Researcher Associates:
Susan Munford, Clinical Psychologist, Baltimore Washington Psychoanalytic Society
Naussica Renner, Research Scholar, Baltimore Washington Psychoanalytic Society
Evelyn Schreiber, Professor English, George Washington University
Richard Sha, Professor English, American University
Robert Winer, Psychiatrist, Baltimore Washington Psychoanalytic Society
Jean Wyatt, Professor Emeritus, English, Occidental College
Featured Scholarship
Richard Sha and Joel Faflak. Romanticism and Consciousness Revisited (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-romanticism-and-consciousness-revisited.html
Karl Figlio. Remembering As Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-59591-1
Jean Wyatt. Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Late Novels. University of Georgia Press, 2017.
https://ugapress.org/book/9780820350868/love-and-narrative-form-in-toni-morrisons-later-novels/
Evelyn Schreiber. Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison. LSU Press, 2010.
https://lsupress.org/books/detail/race-trauma-and-home-in-the-novels-of-toni-morrison/
Robert Winer and Kerry Malawista. Who's Behind the Couch?: The Heart and Mind of the Analyst. Routledge Press, 2017.
Marshall Alcorn. Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in the Classroom. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137002853

Reading Syllabus
February The Social Generation of Belief and Violence
Mike Rothschild, The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult and Conspiracy Theory of Everything.
W.W. Meissner, “Projection and Projective Identification”.
B. Richards and K. Figlio, “The Containing Matrix of the Social”
March Political Processes and Psychic Traits
Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in of American Politics
Klein, “Mourning and its Relation to Manic-Depressive States”
April. Philosophical Analysis of Belief States
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty