Freud and Fundamentalism: The Psychical Politics of Knowledge

Published by Fordham University Press 2010

Freud and Fundamentalism

The Psychical Politics of Knowledge

Edited by: Stathis Gourgouris

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291649

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At the heart of this volume are questions about the psychic components of the modes of thinking we call “fundamentalist”—that is, thinking that disavows multiplicities of meaning, abhors allegorical elements, and strives toward an exclusionary orthodoxy that codifies not just its own world but that of its adversaries, its others. The essays address transcendentalist orthodoxies of all kinds, whether religious or secularist. Fundamentalist elements in psychoanalysis itself are also placed in question, at the same time as psychoanalytic thinking and practice is explored as a mode of knowledge that ultimately unravels fundamentalist tendencies. The texts in this collection represent a wide array of disciplinary standpoints. Their overall aspiration is to interrogate discourses of orthodoxy, literalism, exclusion, and dogma—that is, discourses obsessed with monolithic (monolingual, monological, monolateral, monomythical, and certainly monotheistic) encounters with the world.

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Introduction Stathis Gourgouris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Modeling Freud and Fundamentalism Andrew Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Myth and Dogma in 1920: The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy and Freud’s ‘‘Death Drive’’ David Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
Trees, Pain, and Beyond: Freud on Masochism Branka Arsić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Of Rats and Names Gil Anidjar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Mad Country, Mad Psychiatrists: Psychoanalysis and the Balkan Genocide Dušan Bjelić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About David Lynch, but Should Be Afraid to Ask Slavoj Žižek Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Fictions of Possession: Psychoanalysis and the Occult Lecia Rosenthal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Religion and the Future of Psychoanalysis Jacob Taubes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
The Contribution of Psychoanalysis to Understanding the Genesis of Society Cornelius Castoriadis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Hermeneutics of Suspicion Reconsidered Joel Whitebook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
On the Epistemological Status of Psychoanalysis Aristides Baltas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Note Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 224

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823291649