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Stein, Ruth

 
9780804763059: For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0804763054 ISBN 13 : 9780804763059
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of blind hatred, nor even for political gain, but to achieve an explosive merger with a transcendent awesome Father, God. The extremist is thus motivated more by his love for God than his hatred of the infidel. The contemporary Islamic terrorist kills "God's enemies" to express his intoxication with and complete submission to the God-idea. Stein further shows that this same leitmotif of filial submission and sacrifice runs through patriarchal monotheism in general.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ruth Stein is Associate Professor in New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theories of Affect (1991; 1999).

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804763054
ISBN 13 
9780804763059
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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