Death's dream kingdom the American psyche since 9-11 /

Davis, Walter A. 1942-

Death's dream kingdom the American psyche since 9-11 / [electronic resource] : Walter A. Davis. - London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, c2006. - xx, 279 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface : the way we were -- 911, America -- Living in death's dream kingdom : the psychotic core of capitalist ideology -- Passion of the Christ in Abu Ghraib -- Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq -- A humanistic response to 9-11 : Robert Jay Lifton, or the nostalgia for guarantees -- A postmodernist response to 9-11 : Slavoj Zizek, or the Jouissance of an abstract Hegelian -- Bible says : the psychology of Christian fundamentalism -- The psychodynamics of terror -- Evil : as psychological process and as philosophic concept -- Men of good will : toward an ethic of the tragic.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781849644624 (electronic bk.)




Political culture--United States.
Social psychology--United States.
Political psychology.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.


Electronic books.

JK1726 / .D38 2006

306.20973