Freud and Fundamentalism: The Psychical Politics of Knowledge - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823232247 ISBN 13: 9780823232246

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece; Does Literature Think?: Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era; Lessons in Secular Criticism; and Ενδεχομένως αταξίες (Contingent Disorders). His most recent book is The Perils of the One.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823232247
• ISBN 13: 9780823232246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Gourgouris Stathis