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Informationen zum Autor Julia Borossa is Principal Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Psychoanalysis at Middlesex University. Her research concerns the social and political context of psychoanalytic thought. Ivan Ward is Deputy Director of the Freud Museum, London and the editor of the Ideas in Psychoanalysis series published by Icon Books. Klappentext In what ways can psychoanalysis, as both a theoretical body and a clinical practice contribute to an understanding of the salient social and political problems of our time? This engaged and generous collection of essays with contributions from internationally renowned academics, writers, filmmakers and psychoanalysts, explores the historical, social and emotional factors underpinning the development of extreme forms of hatred and distrust of the other. In the process of a sustained interdisciplinary interrogation, psychoanalysis's strength emerges not in its capacity to provide any lasting solution to socio-political uncertainties, but rather in its capacity to tolerate ambivalence.This collection will be of value to scholars, postgraduate and undergraduate students in the field of the history of ideas, literature, postcolonial studies, psychology and psychoanalysis. It can also be enjoyed by the general reader interested in the psychology of extreme belief. Zusammenfassung This is a study of the contribution of psychoanalysis to an understanding of social and political issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Forward, Julia Borossa and Ivan Ward; 1. In Pursuit of the Nazi Mind? The Deployment of Psychoanalysis in the Allied Struggle against Germany, Daniel Pick; 2. The Impact of Islamophobia, Fahkry Davids; 3. The Disappointed of the Earth, Caroline Rooney; 4. Psychoanalysis, Islam and the Other of Liberalism, Joseph Massad; 5. Slaying Dragons: Mohsin Hamid discusses The Reluctant Fundamentalist; 6. Promised Land or Permitted Land: a Consideration of Levinasian Ethics in the Light of Jewish Fundamentalism, Stephen Frosh; 7. Reflections on Fundamentalism, David Modell; 8. Humanity and its Gods: Atheism, Elisabeth Roudinesco; 9. Response to Elisabeth Roudinesco, Jacqueline Rose; Afterword: a note on atheism, John Forrester....
