PDF Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies) by Monica Lindberg Falk in History

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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.