Freud and fundamentalism the psychical politics of knowledge / edited by Stathis Gourgouris.

Other author Gourgouris, Stathis, 1958-
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press,
Descriptionvi, 253 p. ; 23 cm.
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Contents Modeling Freud and fundamentalism / Andrew Parker -- Myth and dogma in 1920 : the fundamentalist-modernist controversy and Freud's "death drive" / David Adams -- Trees, pain, and beyond : Freud on masochism / Branka Arsić -- Of rats and names / Gil Anidjar -- Mad country, mad psychiatrists : psychoanalysis and the Balkan genocide / Dušan Bjelić -- Everything you always wanted to know about David Lynch, but should be afraid to ask Slavoj Žižek / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli -- Fictions of possession : psychoanalysis and the occult / Lecia Rosenthal -- Religion and the future of psychoanalysis / Jacob Taubes -- The contribution of psychoanalysis to understanding the genesis of society / Cornelius Castoriadis -- The hermeneutics of suspicion reconsidered / Joel Whitebook -- On the epistemological status of psychoanalysis / Aristides Baltas.
Summary Annotation 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 placedin 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-245) and index.
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