Terrorism and War
Subtitle: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence
By: edited by Coline Covington, Paul Williams, Jean Arundale and Jean Knox ; introduction by Lord Alderdice
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780429480942
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Terrorism; Political aspects; War; September 11 Terrorist Attacks; Armed Conflicts; Attentats du 11 septembre 2001, États-Unis; Terrorisme; Aspect politique; Guerre; Psychoanalysis
Description: "Following the attacks of September 11th 2001, one of the resounding questions asked was "What would make anyone do such a thing?" The psychological mentality of the suicidal terrorist left a gaping hole in people's understanding. This essential volume represents a much-needed effort to collate and examine some of the material already at our disposal as an encouragement to serious thought on this question and other related questions.'If terrorism is not new, what is it about the recent attacks that gives us a sense that something has changed? Is it the scale of the destruction, or the anxiety that we are facing some altogether new uncertainty? Are we in some sense facing a new enemy?. In reflecting on these and other related questions we may be facing a similar watershed of understanding to that faced by Freud at the end of the Great War. In the absence of progress in our thinking today, political leaders and public opinion will likely turn to previous political and religious ideas, investing in them with a fundamentalist certainty that spells disaster. This book is a serious effort to marshal some of the material already at our disposal as an encouragement to serious thought on the subject of Terrorism and War.'- Lord Alderdice, from his Introduction"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part, Terrorism --; title: chapter Introduction  -- John Alderdice; title: chapter Introduction  -- Coline Covington; title: chapter One Thoughts and photographs, World Trade Centre: 11th September 2001  -- Justin Beal; title: chapter Two The eleventh of September massacre  -- Ron Britton; title: chapter Three Thoughts on September 11th, 2001  -- Philip A. Ringstrom; title: chapter Four Beyond bombs and sanctions  -- Aleksander Vucho; title: chapter Five From containment to leakage, from the collective to the unique: therapist and patient in shared national trauma  -- Dvora Miller-Florsheim; title: chapter Six The psychodynamic dimension of terrorism  -- Salman Akhtar; title: chapter Seven Reflections on the making of a terrorist  -- Stuart W. Twemlow Frank C. Sacco; title: part, Hatred, Enmity and Revenge --; title: chapter Introduction  -- Jean Arundale; title: chapter Eight On hatred: with comments on the revolutionary, the saint, and the terrorist  -- K.R. Eissler; title: chapter Nine The role of hatred in the ego  -- Ping-Nie Pao; title: chapter Ten Fundamentalism and idolatry  -- Ronald Britton; title: chapter Eleven The benign and malignant other  -- Coline Covington; title: part, Why War? --; title: chapter Introduction  -- Paul Williams; title: chapter Twelve Freud/Einstein correspondence --; title: chapter Thirteen Jung correspondence: Letter to Dorothy Thompson --; title: chapter Fourteen Thoughts for the times on war and death: a psychoanalytic address on an interdisciplinary problem  -- Donald M. Kaplan; title: chapter Fifteen Psychoanalysis and war  -- Diana Birkett; title: chapter Psychoanalysis and war--response to Diana Birkett  -- Isobel Hunter-Brown; title: chapter Sixteen Psychological defence and nuclear war  -- Robert D. Hinshelwood; title: chapter Seventeen Silence is the real crime 1  -- Hanna Segal; title: part, The Aftermath of War --; title: chapter Introduction  -- Jean Knox; title: chapter Eighteen Destructiveness, atrocities and healing: epistemological and clinical reflections  -- Renos K. Papadopoulos; title: chapter Nineteen Omagh: the beginning of the reparative impulse?  -- Raman Kapur; title: chapter Twenty The transgenerational transmission of holocaust trauma: lessons learned from the analysis of an adolescent with obsessive compulsive disorder  -- Peter Fonagy; title: chapter Twenty One The holocaust and the power of powerlessness: survivor guilt an unhealed wound  -- Alfred Garwood; title: chapter Twenty Two Exile and bereavement  -- Barbara Hart; title: chapter Forget.