'It spans social and psychological dimensions with unflinching willingness to speak the truth as the author discovers it. Davis writes with fervor, vision, and keen moral appreciation of our condition. He encourages us to see what we fear to see, to say what we fear to say. This book is illuminating, challenging, fierce' -- Michael Eigen, author of The Sensitive Self, Rage, Ecstasy, Toxic Nourishment, Damaged Bonds, andThe Psychoanalytic Mystic. 'What strikes me about this book is the utter originality. [Davis] has developed a distinctive voice that manages to talk about the densest theoretical concepts in the most approachable language imaginable' -- Todd McGowan 'An unsettling book, passionately and lovingly crafted by a superb and unique writer and thinker' -- Counterpunch 'The most important contribution of this wide-ranging book is its redefinition of ideology: Davis argues that ideology is not so much a matter of what you believe as why you believe it. [An] important book' -- Eugene Holland, Ohio State University