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PREFACE

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FREUD

EXTRACTS
Rediscovering the unconscious
The legacy of Freud
Freud, Satan and the serpent
Freud's false memories

REVIEWS
The bewildered visionary
Flirting with Freud
Taming the beast
Letting the Cartesian cat out

A TLS EXCHANGE
Freud and the Judaeo-Christian tradition: Frederick Crews and Richard Webster

STRUCTURALISM

ARTICLES
Structuralist theology
Lacan goes to the opera

ESSAYS
Levi-Strauss's theology
The cult of Lacan

LITERATURE

ESSAYS
'The thought-fox' and the poetry of Ted Hughes
The diminutive insect: Gulliver's Travels and original sin

The poverty of literary theory

REVIEWS
Salman Rushdie: imaginary homelands
Orwell and the shooting-stick: sex, sadism and biography

POLITICS AND RELIGION

EXTRACTS
A brief history of blasphemy
Liberalism's holy war

ESSAYS

Reconsidering the Rushdie affair
The politics of the body

ARTICLES
Was Hitler a racist?
The dark mirror of Islam
Israel, Palestine and the tiger of terrorism: Islamic anti-semitism and history
 
REVIEWS
Life in the death camp
Our common inhumanity: anti-semitism and history
Policing racism
History and hatred

SCIENCE

ESSAYS
God, physics and Darwin: why scientists aren't sceptical

REVIEWS
Science and the soul
The two cultures revisited

DARWIN 
 

EXTRACTS
Steven Pinker and the limitations of Darwinian theory

REVIEWS
The Darwin legend


FALSE ALLEGATIONS

ESSAY
Waterhouse: a betrayal of trust?

ARTICLES

Care goes on trial
Trawling for crimes: the Danesford two and the case of Terry Hoskin
What the BBC did not tell us
How the police trawl the innocent
Do you care to go to jail?
End this cruel injustice
The new injustices
Trawling goes on trial
Trawling nets the innocent

REVIEWS
Satanic abuse and McMartin: a global village rumour
Crusade or witch-hunt?

HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMORANDUM
The origins and erosion of the modern similar fact principle

TRAWLING NEWS AND LINKS
Advertising in prison
The prison governor, the notice and the question of compensation
Confessions of a forensic psychologist
Home affairs committee report 2002
Waterhouse: the anniversary of an injustice
Waterhouse: a fight against injustice by MICHAEL BARNES
Police abandon massive trawling operation

THE SHIELDFIELD FILES 

ARTICLES
Cleared: the story of Shieldfield
How our demons fuel witch-hunts
Why Professor Barker must go
Shieldfield doctor faces GMC hearing

NEWS AND LINKS
Shieldfield news and links

Shieldfield: the response of ACAL
Shieldfield: how did it happen
Shieldfield: the latest news

DOCUMENTS
The Cosgrove letter

JUDGMENT EXTRACTS