Violence or Dialogue? : Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism

ISBN-13: 9780952390527 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 274 str.

Sverre Varvin; Vamik D. Volkan; Daniel H. Widlcher

Opis

This is a landmark book. While applied analysis has been met with scepticism and inhibition in the psychopolitical sphere, this lag has been overcome, and more than made up for, by the leap forward contributed by the authors of this volume. The dynamics and psychopathology of large group behavior, including conflicts between nations, can now take their place in depth understanding alongside that of the individual. The result, expanding Freud's Group Psychology, is an inestimable advance in the reach of psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

The International Psychoanalysis Library -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Background: History and Concepts -- When violence masquerades as virtue: a brief history of terrorism -- Terror in everyday life: revisting Mr Kurtz -- Terrorism and victimization: individual and large-group dynamics -- Killer apes on American Airlines, or: how religion was the main hijacker on September 11 -- Globalization and identity -- Hate, humiliation, and masculinity -- What Leads to Terrorism? -- Collective phantasms, destructiveness, and terrorism -- Dehumanization: origins, manifestations, and remedies -- Reflections on the terrorist mind -- The minds and perceptions of "the others" -- Consequences of Terror -- Silence in the aftermath -- Childhood terror -- Trauma and its after-effects -- Traumatized societies -- Conclusion

O autorze

Varvin, Sverre