โ Scribed by Stein, Ruth
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
For Love of the Father provides a psychological explanation of the attraction of destructive and self-destructive fundamentalism in terms of male longings.
Content: Evil as love and as liberation : the mind of a suicidal religious terrorist --
Fundamentalism as vertical mystical homoeros --
Purification as violence --
Regression to the father : clinical narratives and theoretical reflections --
The triadic structure of evil.
Terrorism -- Psychological aspects. Terrorists -- Psychology. Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism.
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