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1、EthnicandRacialStudiesVol.25No.1January2002pp.1–19Tellingthestoryofcommunalcon¯ictsinSouthAsia:interimreportonapersonalsearchforde®ningmyths1AshisNandyAbstractAmajordiscoveryorinnovationinthenaturalandsocialsciencesoftenhasafoundationalmythassociatedwithit.Tha

2、tmythusuallycapturesthesocialrelationsofthediscoveryanditsstatusinpopularculture.Asearchfornar-rativesonethno-religiousviolenceinSouthAsia,toidentifystoriesthatmaybecomeinfuturerepresentativefoundationalmyths,revealsthattheyallgrapplewiththeopen-endednatureofS

3、outhAsianself,includingitsmulti-culturalcore;theimplosionofproximity,ratherthandistance,thatoftenpowersmajorgenocidalclashes;theuncertainstatusandlimitedrangeofplayofnationalistideologies,secularandnonsecular,intraditionalself-denitions;andthepsychologicalinse

4、curitiesanddesperatesearchforcom-munitythathavebeenreleasedbytheprocessesassociatedwiththeurban-industrialvisionintheregion.Therisingtideofethno-religiousviolenceinSouthAsia,thus,facesdeepresistanceatgroundlevel.Keywords:Discovery;memory;multiculturalself;nati

5、onalism;violence;genocide.Mosttheoriesthathavechangedcosmologiesandmostparadigmatichis-toriesofdiscoveryacquiretheirculturallocationpartlythroughapopularfoundationalmythoranarrestingstory.Sometimesthestoriesareapocryphal,sometimesnot.Buttheyalwayssumupforthela

6、ity–andattimesforthetheoriststhemselves–thelargerculturalmeaningandsocialstatusofthebreakthroughandwhatthetheory’spubliccon-stituencyislikelytoreadintoit.Canthosewhohatepsychoanalysisandgrudgeitspowerfulpresenceinourtimesdescribethedisciplinewithoutinvokingthe

7、tragedyofkingOedipus?Afterall,eventhoselikeVladimirNabokov,whochoosetobelievethatSigmundFreudwasaViennesecharlatan,havetobattlewiththeOedipalmetaphorsassociatedwith©2002Taylor&FrancisLtdISSN0141-9870print/1466-4356onlineDOI:10.1080/014198701201120302AshisNandy

8、psychoanalysisandconfrontthetragicgrandeurandalluringhermeneu-ticsofthemyth.Eventhosewhohaveintroducedmajordeviationsintopsychoanalysisorchangedthewaywethinkofthedisciplinehavenotb