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For love of the father : a psychoanalytic study of religious terrorism / Ruth Stein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stein, Ruth, Ph. D.
- Series:
- Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
- Meridian : crossing aesthetics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism--Psychological aspects.
- Terrorism.
- Terrorists--Psychology.
- Terrorists.
- Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For Love of the Father provides a psychological explanation of the attraction of destructive and self-destructive fundamentalism in terms of male longings.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1 Evil as Love and as Liberation: The Mind of a Suicidal Religious Terrorist; 2 Fundamentalism as Vertical Mystical Homoeros; 3 Purification as Violence; 4 Regression to the Father: Clinical Narratives and Theoretical Reflections; 5 The Triadic Structure of Evil; Appendix A: Mohammed Atta's Letter; Appendix B: From Dr. Ali Shariati's After Shahadat; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804772846
- 0804772843
- OCLC:
- 589169070
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