Abstract:One of the problems in dealing with terrorism is that we have virtually no access to individual terrorists; only their actions are visible. The founders of the Italian terrorist group, the Red Brigades, on the other hand, have written about their experiences and have exhaustively explained their motivations. The author's premise is that these autobiographies and her interviews with several of the group's members give us access to the unconscious processes involved in the formation and operation of the group. A… Show more
“…Terrorists believe that they can exploit the other’s vulnerability to bring about the other’s death and there with their own glory. Terror may thus be viewed as a group immortality project (Tarantelli, 2010) that frees one from the need to acknowledge one’s own mortality and fear of death (Becker, 1973).…”
Section: Heroic Aspirations To Glorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another aspect of the abnormal relations with the society, is demonstrated by observation that terrorist organizations are unable to acknowledge the outside as a source of value (Tarantelli, 2010). Therefore, based on either race, politics, or religion they justify its eradication by the use of extreme violence against it.…”
Section: Chronic Regressionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For the purposes of this article we define terrorism as the 'intentional use of violence by non-state organizations, executed against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims' (Ganor, 2010). In this regard, we view terrorism as a group phenomenon (Hoffman, 2002;Tarantelli, 2010) and, in particular, a large-group phenomenon that involves the conscious and unconscious, shared past and present psychological experiences (Volkan, 2018).…”
In the present article, we aim to broaden our understanding of the phenomenon of terror in terms of group-analytic and psychoanalytic conceptualizations (Freud, 1915; Shadach et al., 2017; Harris and Meltzer, 1976; Hopper, 2003a, 2003b, 2009). We present a conceptualization of what we call a ‘dynamic terror matrix’ and characterize its unique features using Da’esh1 as an illustrative example. As Da’esh is an extremist organization (Lahoud, 2014; Omer and Schweitzer, 2016; Ryan, 2015), with a systematic and future-oriented ideology it constitutes a social phenomenon that exemplifies major features of the ‘dynamic terror matrix’.
“…Terrorists believe that they can exploit the other’s vulnerability to bring about the other’s death and there with their own glory. Terror may thus be viewed as a group immortality project (Tarantelli, 2010) that frees one from the need to acknowledge one’s own mortality and fear of death (Becker, 1973).…”
Section: Heroic Aspirations To Glorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another aspect of the abnormal relations with the society, is demonstrated by observation that terrorist organizations are unable to acknowledge the outside as a source of value (Tarantelli, 2010). Therefore, based on either race, politics, or religion they justify its eradication by the use of extreme violence against it.…”
Section: Chronic Regressionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For the purposes of this article we define terrorism as the 'intentional use of violence by non-state organizations, executed against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims' (Ganor, 2010). In this regard, we view terrorism as a group phenomenon (Hoffman, 2002;Tarantelli, 2010) and, in particular, a large-group phenomenon that involves the conscious and unconscious, shared past and present psychological experiences (Volkan, 2018).…”
In the present article, we aim to broaden our understanding of the phenomenon of terror in terms of group-analytic and psychoanalytic conceptualizations (Freud, 1915; Shadach et al., 2017; Harris and Meltzer, 1976; Hopper, 2003a, 2003b, 2009). We present a conceptualization of what we call a ‘dynamic terror matrix’ and characterize its unique features using Da’esh1 as an illustrative example. As Da’esh is an extremist organization (Lahoud, 2014; Omer and Schweitzer, 2016; Ryan, 2015), with a systematic and future-oriented ideology it constitutes a social phenomenon that exemplifies major features of the ‘dynamic terror matrix’.
“…L'étude des textes ou enregistrements qu'ils ont laissés nous montre l'aboutissement d'un processus dont la source et l'organisation ne pourraient être mises en lumière qu'après des entretiens approfondis avec eux. Leurs déclarations montrent cependant, tout comme l'étude des déclarations de terroristes (Beebe Tarantelli, 2010 ;Brunet, 2007), un discours fait d'identification à une cause hautement idéalisée. Ils semblent s'identifier massivement à cette cause et se sentir grandis de cette identification.…”
Section: L'hypothèse D'un Trauma Narcissique -L'humiliationunclassified
Cet article présente une analyse des déterminants intrapsychiques de la violence. Les profils psychologiques des individus qui « passent à l’acte » paraissent très divers, allant du commun des mortels au criminel endurci jusqu’au fanatique génocidaire. Comment adviennent la violence individuelle et la violence groupale ? Si l’expression pulsionnelle comme décharge, sans adresse, est à considérer, d’autres manifestations violentes témoignent plutôt d’un message potentiel, c’est-à-dire d’une quête envers l’objet qui saura accorder un sens, permettre la symbolisation. Cet article tend à cerner quelques dynamiques intrapsychiques relevées dans différents cas de figure de la violence actuelle, du criminel local au terrorisme à l’échelle mondiale
“…Fundamentalist groups function prevalently in the mode which Bion theorized as growing out of basic assumptions […] In order to defend their phantasy, members of totalizing groups must suspend reality and deny everything which contradicts the illusion […] Totalizing groups obligate their members to disavow not only links to complex external reality, but also to complex internal reality.(Tarantelli, 2010, pp. 548, 553, 554)…”
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