Terrorism and War : Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence / edited by Coline Covington, Paul Williams, Jean Arundale and Jean Knox ; introduction by Lord Alderdice.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alderdice, Lord, contributor.

Arundale, Jean, editor.

Covington, Coline, editor.

Knox, Jean, editor.

Williams, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Aggressiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

COVER; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; TERRORISM; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Thoughts and photographs, World Trade Centre: 11th September 2001; CHAPTER TWO: The eleventh of September massacre; CHAPTER THREE: Thoughts on September 11th, 2001; CHAPTER FOUR: Beyond bombs and sanctions; CHAPTER FIVE: From containment to leakage, from the collective to the unique: therapist and patient in shared national trauma; CHAPTER SIX: The psychodynamic dimension of terrorism; CHAPTER SEVEN: Reflections on the making of a terrorist; HATRED, ENMITY AND REVENGE; Introduction

CHAPTER EIGHT: On hatred: with comments on the revolutionary, the saint, and the terroristCHAPTER NINE: The role of hatred in the ego; CHAPTER TEN: Fundamentalism and idolatry; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The benign and malignant other; WHY WAR?; Introduction; CHAPTER TWELVE: Freud/Einstein correspondence; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Jung correspondence: letter to Dorothy Thompson; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Thoughts for the times on war and death: a psychoanalytic address on an interdisciplinary problem; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Psychoanalysis and war; Psychoanalysis and war-response to Diana Birkett

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Psychological defence and nuclear warCHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Silence is the real crime; THE AFTERMATH OF WAR; Introduction; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Destructiveness, atrocities and healing: epistemological and clinical reflections; CHAPTER NINETEEN: Omagh: the beginning of the reparative impulse?; CHAPTER TWENTY: The transgenerational transmission of holocaust trauma: Lessons learned from the analysis of an adolescent with obsessive compulsive disorder; CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: The holocaust and the power of powerlessness: survivor guilt an unhealed wound

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: Exile and bereavementForget; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613248633

9780429905711

0429905718

9780429480942

0429480946

9781283248631

1283248638

9781849403412

1849403414

OCLC:

748242030