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Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Avner Falk
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Hardcover. This book applies psychoanalysis to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Avner Falk makes a close historical examination to show that the two parties have missed innumerable opportunities for a rational solution, and examines the unconscious aspects of the conflict. Num Pages: 300 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAF; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
This is the first English-language book to apply psychoanalysis to the most intractable international struggle in the world today - the Arab-Israeli conflict. Two ethnic groups fight over a single territory that both consider to be theirs by historical right. Avner Falk makes a close historical examination to show that the two parties 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 behavior is to explore the unconscious aspects of ... Read more
This is the first English-language book to apply psychoanalysis to the most intractable international struggle in the world today - the Arab-Israeli conflict. Two ethnic groups fight over a single territory that both consider to be theirs by historical right. Avner Falk makes a close historical examination to show that the two parties 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 behavior is to explore the unconscious aspects of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299202507
SKU
V9780299202507
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About Avner Falk
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.
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