The perversion of the ideals on the religious fundamentalism

Abstract

The present paper discusses Freud’s metapsychology in regard to certain psychic processes and components of a perverse nature that are at the basis of ideals of religious fundamentalism. It is our aim to work with the concept of “narcissism of death” (or “negative narcissism”) and its articulation with the death drive, as well the distinction between the ideal ego and the ego ideal. The aim is to better understand the model of “idealizations,” where religious fundamentalists sacrifice their own egos in the name of an ideal ego that is little more than a projection of their own infantile narcissistic ambitions.