For Love of the Father by Stein, Ruth -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

MERIDIAN Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction §1 Evil as Love and as Liberation - The Mind of a Suicidal Religious Terrorist

The Son’s Supplicating Love for the Father The Father, Hypermasculinity, and the Disappearing Woman The Letter: A Second Look Fear Psychic Numbing Concerning the Theme of Evil Some Sources for the Killing Manic Triumph God the Father The Sons

§2 Fundamentalism as Vertical Mystical Homoeros

The World Is “Furiously Religious” Patriarchal Monotheism: Abstractness, Oneness, Invisibility Belief and Desire Vertical Homoerotic Desire Islam, the Occident, and the New Manicheism Submission, Verticality Nonearthly Vertical Desire The Fierce Struggle with Self-Hatred

§3 Purification as Violence

Purification and Its Progression Rituals and Taboos Protecting Goodness: Self-Maintenance Satisfying God: God’s Orgasms

§4 Regression to the Father - Clinical Narratives and Theoretical Reflections

How “Father Regression” Was Conceived The Archaic Father Patients Who Did Not Separate from Their Fathers Selling One’s Soul to the Devil The Need to Idealize the Father Killing the Father A Case of Successful “Deicide” Daniel Paul Schreber The Primal Father: Regression and Perversion The Archaic Father: Propitiation, Resuscitation No Deicide Atta and Bin Laden What Is a Father?

§5 The Triadic Structure of Evil

Dyadic Evil Collective Evil Triadic Evil Religious Justification of Evil False Religious Love The Hindu Vision Emotional Balancing and Its Relation to Evil God Imaginary Ideology Superlaw Terrorism as Perversion Radical Evil, Diabolical Evil Diabolical Evil and the Death Drive Going All the Way Radical Islam and the Question of Judgment

Reference Matter Appendix A Appendix B Notes References Index MERIDIAN - Crossing Aesthetics