C. Fred Alford interviewed working people, prisoners, and college
students in order to discover how people experience evil -- in
themselves, in others, and in the world. What people meant by evil,
he found, was a profound, inchoate feeling of dread so overwhelming
that they tried to inflict it on others to be rid of it themselves.
A leather-jacketed emergency medical technician, for example, one
of the many young people for whom vampires are oddly seductive
icons of evil, said he would "give anything to be a vampire".
Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, Alford argues that the primary
experience of evil is not moral but existential. The problems of
evil are complicated by the terror it evokes, a threat to the self
so profound it tends to be isolated deep in the mind. Alford
suggests an alternative to this bleak vision. The exercise of
imagination -- in particular, imagination that takes the form of a
shared narrative -- offers an active and practical alternative to
the contemporary experience of evil. Our society suffers from a
paucity of shared narratives and the creative imagination they
inspire.
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