'Psychoanalysis, Terrorism and Fundamentalism' 80K
http://human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap139.html

        I was asked again this year to give a keynote talk to the
distance learning MA students in Psychoanalytic Studies at Sheffield
University a year after 9/11. It was suggested that I should revamp
my talk on 'Fundamentalism and Terrorism' of a year earlier, but I
felt that it was very much of the moment, so I drew on parts of it
but centred my remarks on what psychoanalysis has to say to help us
understand matters above the individual level, including
fundamentalism and terrorism. You could say that I reversed the order
of priority from that of the earlier paper and said rather more about
the psychoanalytic theory. The paper is also more reflective, but
there is still urgency, since we are on the brink of war with Iraq,
and reflection is just as much at a premium in the heat of this
fraught historical moment as it was in the wake of the attacks on New
York and Washington and the failed attack that crashed in
Pennsylvania.

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Robert Maxwell Young, Prof. Emeritus of Psychotherapy &
Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, Univ.
of Sheffield, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/
Co-Director, Bulgarian Institute of Human Relations & Honoured Prof.,
New Bulgarian Univ., Sofia. http://www.nbu.bg/bihr/psy.htm
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