For Love of the Father

A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Religion & Spirituality
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Author: Ruth Stein ISBN: 9780804772846
Publisher: Stanford University Press Publication: October 28, 2009
Imprint: Stanford University Press Language: English
Author: Ruth Stein
ISBN: 9780804772846
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication: October 28, 2009
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Language: English

Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of blind hatred, nor even for political gain, but to achieve an explosive merger with a transcendent awesome Father, God. The extremist is thus motivated more by his love for God than his hatred of the infidel. The contemporary Islamic terrorist kills "God's enemies" to express his intoxication with and complete submission to the God-idea. Stein further shows that this same leitmotif of filial submission and sacrifice runs through patriarchal monotheism in general.

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Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of blind hatred, nor even for political gain, but to achieve an explosive merger with a transcendent awesome Father, God. The extremist is thus motivated more by his love for God than his hatred of the infidel. The contemporary Islamic terrorist kills "God's enemies" to express his intoxication with and complete submission to the God-idea. Stein further shows that this same leitmotif of filial submission and sacrifice runs through patriarchal monotheism in general.

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