From: "Orion Anderson" <libraryofsocialscience-AT-earthlink.net> To: <nietzsche-AT-driftline.org> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:17:45 -0400 Cc: Subject: [Nietzsche] Psychology of Fundamentalism Violent fundamentalism is motivated by the need to eliminate badness through fighting the bad outside (of oneself). What is required now is to eliminate the heretical, impure, inimical elements, that is, killing the infidels who do not believe in (my/our) God. A destructive counterpart is created to the killing of "God's enemies": it is the killing of oneself. Obviously the killing of oneself in the effort to kill the impure part of oneself, amounts to the total failure - or total grim success - of the process of purification. RUTH STEIN _____ Dear Colleague, Our website IDEOLOGIES OF WAR AND TERROR (at <http://ideologiesofwar.com/> http://ideologiesofwar.com/) will publish significant, original work contributing to our understanding of the sources of political and religious violence. We are proud to announce the publication of Dr. Ruth Stein's groundbreaking paper, "Fundamentalism, Father and Son, and Vertical Desire." Please take advantage of the opportunity to read this important work at <http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/> http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/ <http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/fundamentalism_stein.htm> fundamentalism_stein.htm With best regards, Orion Anderson P.S. We welcome thoughts and reflections on this piece. Please write to me at <mailto:oanderson-AT-ideologiesofwar.com> oanderson-AT-ideologiesofwar.com _____ THE ROLE OF THE FATHER The role of the father is conceived as being that of a lawgiver, as well as that of a liberator and facilitator of desire and ambition. The father's role is widely conceptualized as creating an exit from the mother-infant orbit (sometimes called 'merger,' 'symbiosis,' or the Imaginary) into the outer world, lawful, reality, language, and the Symbolic Order. In religious fundamentalism the figure of the father is perverted: a father who liberates his sons (and daughters) into social life, into taking initiative, and into the joy of competence and the entitlement to pursue their desires in life, becomes the Father who liberates his sons (and daughters) from "themselves", from their individuality, human compassion and the moral impulse. Love for this father liberates his sons to humiliate, kill and destroy "his" enemies. The persecutory father, who is an inner "gang leader", is rephrased as a loved and loving father, although this father is obviously a vengeful killer. Obviously, what subtends this love of God is tremendous, transformed hatred, a kind of loving paranoia. _____ The complete paper by Dr. Ruth Stein is available as an on-line publication. To read: "Fundamentalism, Father and Son, and Vertical Desire" PLEASE CLICK <http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/fundamentalism_stein.htm> HERE or visit: <http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/fun> http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/fun <http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/fundamentalism_stein.htm> damentalism_stein.htm _____ Ruth Stein, Ph.D., is a Training Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute (IPS); Faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research (IPTAR); Faculty at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS); on the Advisory Board for the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy (IARPP); Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues; and International Editor for Studies in Gender & Sexuality; Associate clinical professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. _____ E-mail: <mailto:oanderson-AT-ideologiesofwar.com> oanderson-AT-ideologiesofwar.com Web: <http://ideologiesofwar.com/> http://ideologiesofwar.com/ _______________________________________________ List address: nietzsche-AT-driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/nietzsche-driftline.org
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