Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Hardcover

Avner Falk

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 029920250X ISBN 13: 9780299202507

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Synopsis

    This is the first English-language book ever to apply psychoanalytic knowledge to the understanding of the most intractable international struggle in our world today—the Arab-Israeli conflict. Two ethnic groups fight over a single territory that both consider to be theirs by historical right—essentially a rational matter. But close historical examination shows that the two parties to this tragic conflict have missed innumerable opportunities for a rational partition of the territory between them and for a permanent state of peace and prosperity rather than perennial bloodshed and misery.
    Falk suggests that a way to understand and explain such irrational matters is to examine the unconscious aspects of the conflict. He examines large-group psychology, nationalism, group narcissism, psychogeography, the Arab and Israeli minds, and suicidal terrorism, and he offers psychobiographical studies of Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat, two key players in this tragic conflict today.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Terrace Books

About the Author:

Avner Falk is one of the foremost Israeli political psychologists and has been a clinical lecturer in psychiatry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Medicine. He is author of psychoanalytic biographies of Moshe Dayan, David Ben-Gurion, and Theodor Herzl, and of A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 029920250X
• ISBN 13: 9780299202507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280