Conferences

Tariq Ali

Fundamentalism and politics in present days

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I was very touched and honored to be invited by psychoanalysts. I don't think I've ever spoken to a conference of psychoanalysts before, so I hope you will be kind to me afterwards.

Essentially, what I want to do in this talk is to open up some concepts for you, to discuss them and then I would be very happy to answer questions on any of the themes I've discussed or many I've not had time to raise from the floor, for as long as we have a time.

Let's start by discussing the word which is becoming extremely overused over the last few years: Fundamentalism, word that begins with F and let us link it to another word, which is also used or has been used over the centuries and which is also linked to Fundamentalism, and that's the word fanatic, fanaticism.