Dear Colleague,

Our website IDEOLOGIES OF WAR AND TERROR (at http://ideologiesofwar.com/) will publish significant, original work contributing to our understanding of the sources of political and religious violence.

We are proud to announce the publication of Dr. Ruth Stein’s groundbreaking paper, “Fundamentalism, Father and Son, and Vertical Desire.”

Please take advantage of the opportunity to read this important work at

http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/fundamentalism_stein.htm

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Orion Anderson

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THE ROLE OF THE FATHER

The role of the father is conceived as being that of a lawgiver, as well as that of a liberator and facilitator of desire and ambition. The father’s role is widely conceptualized as creating an exit from the mother-infant orbit (sometimes called ‘merger,’ ‘symbiosis,’ or the Imaginary) into the outer world, lawful, reality, language, and the Symbolic Order.

In religious fundamentalism the figure of the father is perverted: a father who liberates his sons (and daughters) into social life, into taking initiative, and into the joy of competence and the entitlement to pursue their desires in life, becomes the Father who liberates his sons (and daughters) from “themselves”, from their individuality, human compassion and the moral impulse.

Love for this father liberates his sons to humiliate, kill and destroy “his” enemies. The persecutory father, who is an inner “gang leader”, is rephrased as a loved and loving father, although this father is obviously a vengeful killer. Obviously, what subtends this love of God is tremendous, transformed hatred, a kind of loving paranoia.


The complete paper by Dr. Ruth Stein is available as an on-line publication.

To read: "Fundamentalism, Father and Son, and Vertical Desire"

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http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/fundamentalism_stein.htm


Ruth Stein, Ph.D., is a Training Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute (IPS); Faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research (IPTAR); Faculty at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS); on the Advisory Board for the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy (IARPP); Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues; and International Editor for Studies in Gender & Sexuality; Associate clinical professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.


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