Contents -- PART ONE: THE BELLY OF THE BEAST -- 1 911 - America -- Ground Zero as Image -- Mourning vs Evacuation -- The Psyche That Dropped the Bomb -- After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? -- 2 Living in Death's Dream Kingdom: The Psychotic Core of Capitalist Ideology -- Ideology as Delusional Fantasy -- Capitalism as Fulfillment of the Ideological Enterprise -- 3 Passion of the Christ in Abu Ghraib -- The Misfit's Dilemma -- Movie-goers in the Hands of an Angry Film-maker -- The Non-Accidental Tourist -- The Principle of Hope: or, The Late, Late, Late Show -- Endgame: The Christ of Abu Ghraib -- 4 Weapons of Mass Destruction Found in Iraq -- Laugh-in Brings You the News -- Appointment in Samarra -- The Fatal Lure of Guarantees -- The Nuclear Unconscious -- The Fantasmatic Becomes the Real -- A Billet for Dubya -- Final Jeopardy -- 5 A Humanistic Response to 9-11: Robert Jay Lifton, or the Nostalgia for Guarantees -- History With and Without Guarantees -- The End of Humanism -- 6 A Postmodernist Response to 9-11: Slavoj Zizek, or the Jouissance of an Abstract Hegelian -- The Pleasures of Ideological Criticism -- How to Become a Critical Critic -- The Missed Encounter -- PART TWO: TO THE LEFT OF THE LEFT -- 7 Bible Says: The Psychology of Christian Fundamentalism -- Literalism -- Conversion -- Evangelicalism -- Apocalypse Now -- Sexual Roots of the Fundamentalist Psyche -- 8 The Psychodynamics of Terror -- Home Brewed -- Evacuation Through Projective Identification -- The Perfect Murder: Soul Murder -- Thanatos: The Pleasure of Terror -- Patriot Games -- 9 Evil: As Psychological Process and as Philosophic Concept -- Ordinary People -- Radical Evil -- Systemic Evil: The Psycho-Logic of Capitalism -- 10 Men of Good Will: Toward an Ethic of the Tragic -- The Ethical Significance of Pat Tillman -- Psychoanalysis and Ethics.

The Apostle of Duty and the Subject of Existence -- The Choice on which Ethics Turns -- Toward an Existential Ethic -- The Value That Admits No Equivalent -- Tragic Situatedness: A Modest Proposal -- Singing in the Hard Rain -- Notes -- References -- Index.