| Freud and Fundamentalism: The Psychical Politics of Knowledge Contributor(s): Gourgouris, Stathis (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0823232239 ISBN-13: 9780823232239 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $85.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Religion - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 150.195 |
| LCCN: 2010016253 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, itsothers. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gourgouris, Stathis: - Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University He is the author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece and Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era and editor of Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham). |