The Feeling of Certainty: Psychosocial Perspectives on Identity and Difference

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Feeling of Certainty, Towards a Psychosocial Approach.- 2. The Mentality of Conviction: Feeling Certain and the Search for Truth.- 3. What is Subjectivity and How Can We Study it Empirically? Understanding The Feeling of Certainty through Psychoanalysis and Ethnography.- 4. Haunted by Uncertain Refrains.- 5. Internal Racism: Belief in the Racist Mindset.- 6. Being Racist: The Certainty of a Pathological Organisation of the Personality.- 7. Numinosity and Terror: Jung's Psychological Revision of Otto as an Aid to Engaging Religious Fundamentalism.- 8. "Instead of Trying to Help You, They Try To Screw You": The Feeling of Certainty and the Mexican-origin Border Patrol Agents.- 9. Gender Certainty as a Defence: Oedipal Conflict in Wartime Sexual Violence.- 10. The Primitive Container of Fascism: Masculine Anxieties and Defences in Times of Trauma and Uncertainty.- 11. Collective Identities, Breivik and the National Container.