I was asked to give a talk to the distance learning MA students in
Psychoanalytic Studies at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies,
University of Sheffield on 18 September. By the time I sat down to
prepare my remarks, my chosen topic (psychoanalysis and the history
of ideas) was hard to think about in the light of recent events. I
therefore wrote on fundamentalism and terrorism, drawing attention to
instances of them in the United States (lynching and white militias)
and reflecting on Bin Laden and Muslim fundamentalism.
I tried to bring concepts from the tradition of Klein and Bion to
bear on the dynamics of fundamentalism and terrorism.
Comments very welcome.

http://human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap135.htm
Robert Maxwell Young
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