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Libro 13 di 33: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Stein, Ruth

 
9780804763059: For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism
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ISBN 10: 0804763054 ISBN 13: 9780804763059
Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2009

Sinossi

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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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).

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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Editore
Stanford Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0804763054
ISBN 13 
9780804763059
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
220
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