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June 2, 2026
Im Gespräch mit Raphael M. Bonelli
<p>Lässt man sich auf die Gegenwart ein, kommt man nicht umhin, eine Form der allgemeinen Kopflosigkeit zu diagnostizieren (die der Psychoanalytiker Sam Vaknin mit der wunderbaren Bemerkung quittiert hat, er sei ein Zeitgenosse Shakespeares). Und weil die Verwirrung Programm ist (fair is foul and foul is fair), war dies ein Grund, mit dem Wiener Psychiater Raphael M. Bonelli ins Gespräch zu treten, der für die Gegenwart eine Art Thanatos-Trieb diagnostiziert und seiner Diagnose den Buchtitel „<a target="_blank" href="https://www.edition-a.at/buecher/gesundheit/262/kopflos">Kopflos</a>“ gegeben hat. Nun ist Bonelli alles andere als ein zeitvergessener Kulturkritiker, sondern, als Bewohner der Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie, ein Zeitgenosse, der einen höchst erfolgreichen <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/rppinstitut/videos">YouTube-Kanal</a> initiiert hat. Mag sein, dass ihn dies für bestimmte Phänomene der Gegenwart – vom digitalen Geschwindigkeitsrausch bis zum moralischen Großspurigkeitstumor – sensibilisiert hat, so wie er auch in Gestalt seiner Patienten eine Zeitenwende feststellt. Letztlich aber überrascht Bonelli, als tiefer Optimist, mit einem DDR-Vergleich: Wie dort nach 70 Jahren die Wahrheit durchbrach, werde auch unsere Vernunft wieder siegen.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_M._Bonelli">Raphael M. Bonelli</a>, der seine Karriere als Neurowissenschaftler begonnen hat (und zur Arzneimitteltherapie von Chorea Huntington publiziert hat), ist seit geraumer Zeit als Psychiater und systemischer Therapeut in Wien tätig. Neben der Arbeit mit seinen Patienten hat er die Zeit gefunden, seine Gedanken in höchst erfolgreichen Büchern niederzulegen.</p><p>Raphael M. Bonelli hat u.a. veröffentlicht</p><p></p><p>Themenverwandt</p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at <a href="https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe</a>
May 23, 2026
Psychology of the Machine
<p>Because the second volume of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/die-fremde-in-uns.html?lid=2">The Psychology of the Machine</a> series is set to be released in a few days, we sat down for a brief workshop to discuss why such an undertaking is necessary and the potential gap that must be bridged along the way. In a curious way, the story leads back to the suppressed childhood questions of our history, which we encounter today in ghostly form as social puzzles that are difficult to decipher, if not even as a form of collective psychological inflation. When Nietzsche said that madness is rare in individuals, »but the rule among groups, parties, peoples, and eras,« this implies that people may, without realizing it, work themselves up into a form of collective delusion. And this disorder becomes all the more serious in that it can confront us not only in the form of an economy but also as a supposed reality principle. Deciphering this collective unconscious is the purpose of the Psychology of the Machine, which is an attempt to gain clarity regarding the prevailing Gesellschaftstriebwerk, or our Social Drive Mechanism. Strangely enough, this brings back that conceptual figure which Freud had relegated to the private boudoir with his superego, but originally, in <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_August_Heinroth">Johann Christian August Heinroth’s</a> T<a target="_blank" href="https://archive.org/details/textbookofdistur0001hein">extbook on Disorders of Mental Life</a>, was held to have a collective significance he’d termed the Über-Uns—as that shared fate affecting us all, whether it comes in the form of populism, artificial intelligence, or whatever else.</p><p>Weil in ein paar Tagen der zweite Band der Psychologie der Maschine herauskommen wird, haben wir uns hingesetzt und ein kleines Werkstattgespräch durchgeführt, das zum einen die Frage behandelt, warum ein solches Unterfangen nötig ist, zum anderen, was das Potenzialgefälle ist, das dabei überwunden werden muss. Auf eine kuriose Weise führt die Geschichte zu den ausgeblendeten Kinderfragen unserer Geschichte zurück, die uns heute, in gespenstischer Form, als schwer entzifferbare Gesellschaftsrätsel, wenn nicht überhaupt als eine Form der kollektiven psychischen Inflation begegnen. Wenn Nietzsche gesagt hat, dass der Irrsinn bei Einzelnen etwas Seltenes ist, »aber bei Gruppen, Parteien, Völkern, Zeiten die Regel«, so impliziert dies, dass es Zeiten geben mag, die sich, ohne sich darüber im Klaren zu sein, in eine Form der kollektiven Verblendung hineinsteigern können. Und diese Störung ist umso gravierender, als sie uns in Gestalt einer Ökonomie und damit als vermeintliches ›Realitätsprinzip‹ gegenübertreten kann. Dieses kollektive Unbewusste zu entziffern ist der Sinn der Psychologie der Maschine, der Versuch mithin, sich über das obwaltende Gesellschaftstriebwerk Klarheit zu verschaffen. Auf eine kuriose Weise ist damit eine Gedankenfigur reaktiviert, die Freud mit seinem Über-Ich ins Boudoir des Privaten verlagert hat, die aber ursprünglich, in <a target="_blank" href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_August_Heinroth">Johann Christian August Heinroths</a> Lehrbuch der Störungen des Seelenlebens, als <strong>Über-Uns </strong>eine kollektive Bedeutung besaß – als jenes gemeinsame Schicksal, das uns allen widerfährt, mag es nun als Populismus, als Künstliche Intelligenz oder als was auch immer daherkommen.</p><p>Related Content</p><p></p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at <a href="https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe</a>
May 11, 2026
Talking to ... David Baverez
<p>As the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, a seemingly endless summer of globalization began—thirty golden years in which the only question worth asking was how to stimulate demand. But what happens when the world turns on its own axis and the problem is no longer finding consumers, but actually producing anything at all? David Baverez, a financial strategist who has spent the past decade observing China from Hong Kong, argues that 2022 marks precisely such a rupture: not only the return of geopolitical conflicts but also a fundamental shift from a peace economy to a war economy—an economy measured not by GDP per capita, but by who controls the supply bottlenecks. The question is whether Europe, caught between American financial hegemony and Chinese dominance in production, still has anything to offer—or whether the freedom to think is already a luxury of the past. Despite the somber topic, the conversation with David Baverez was laced with lightheartedness, due in no small part to Baverez’s exceptionally witty way of bringing big issues down to earth and driving the point home.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baverez">David Baverez</a> is a forward-thinking French private investor and author who sometimes describes himself as a Business Angel/Demon on his <a target="_blank" href="https://davidbaverez.medium.com/">Medium</a> page. After spending 15 years between London and Boston — including a decade at Fidelity Investments managing European and Global Equity funds — he co-founded <a target="_blank" href="https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btfom3efwni2jl0ikj5s/innovation/life-gone-long">KDA Capital</a> with Krishnan Sadasivam in 2005, returning all funds to investors at the end of 2010 in an early and contrarian bet against European sovereign debt. He has since lived in Hong Kong as a private investor and author who has written on the emergence of the New China on global economics, including <a target="_blank" href="https://westphaliapress.org/2025/07/05/welcome-to-the-war-economy/">Welcome to the War Economy!</a> He is also a columnist for various media outlets, including <a target="_blank" href="https://www.lopinion.fr/theme/la-chronique-de-david-baverez">L’Opinion</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.lesechos.fr/auteur/david-baverez">Les Echos</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.sansdoute.info/author/dbavarez/">Sans doute</a>.</p><p>David Baverez has published</p><p>Related Content</p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at <a href="https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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