Freud and Fundamentalism : The Psychical Politics of Knowledge / ed. by Stathis Gourgouris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, David, Contributor.

Anidjar, Gil, Contributor.

Arsić, Branka, Contributor.

Baltas, Aristides, Contributor.

Bjelić, Dušan, Contributor.

Castoriadis, Cornelius, Contributor.

Gourgouris, Stathis, Contributor.

Gourgouris, Stathis, Editor.

Parker, Andrew, Contributor.

Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, Contributor.

Rosenthal, Lecia, Contributor.

Taubes, Jacob, Contributor.

Whitebook, Joel, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Modeling Freud and Fundamentalism

Myth and Dogma in 1920: The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy and Freud’s ‘‘Death Drive’’

Trees, Pain, and Beyond: Freud on Masochism

Of Rats and Names

Mad Country, Mad Psychiatrists: Psychoanalysis and the Balkan Genocide

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About David Lynch, but Should Be Afraid to Ask Slavoj Žižek

Fictions of Possession: Psychoanalysis and the Occult

Religion and the Future of Psychoanalysis

The Contribution of Psychoanalysis to Understanding the Genesis of Society

The Hermeneutics of Suspicion Reconsidered

On the Epistemological Status of Psychoanalysis

Note

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9164-2

OCLC:

1350688299