Vertical Mystical Homoeros An Altered Form of Desire in Fundamentalism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4577639
AutoresRuth E K Stein (0000-0002-8107-6984, New York University, autor correspondente), Ruth Stein
Ano2003
Volume4
Fascículo1
Páginas38-58
Data de publicação2003-01-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoStudies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15240650409349214
OpenAlexW2061327779
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas6

This paper inquires into the kind of desire specific to the fundamentalist mode. The author suggests that the simplistic, black-and-white, ostensibly “horizontal” divisions between good and evil, right and wrong, pure and impure that characterize the fundamentalist sensibility create at the same time two phenomena: (a) gross emotional intensity that endows experience with a stark quality (e.g., grandiosity and abjection), and (b) a “vertical” division that constructs basic inequalities. The “vertical” difference between the believer and his God intensifies longing and mystical desire. The longing of the holder of such desire is to merge with a tantalizing, perfect, and cruel God and to renounce his individuality and even life. The concept of a “regression-to-the father” is a tempting and potentially dangerous process of abnegation if not countered by the need to overcome the “father” one so submissively desires

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Fundamentalism · Grandiosity · Literature · Mysticism · Narcissism · Psychoanalysis · Religious experience · Sensibility · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Theological Perspectives and Practices