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The origins of terrorism
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Cerfolio, Nina E. |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | This chapter explores how oppression leads to a sense of humiliation, obliterating a sense of belonging and connection to humanity. This resulting alienation becomes an underlying motive driving revengeful war-generated terrorism. The author's humanitarian work during the Second Chechen War, in 2005, giving medical and psychological support to Chechens—both those trapped in Chechnya and those stranded as refugees in Ingushetia—provides a glimpse into this Muslim sense of shame as a result of war with the more powerful Russian army. While in Chechnya, the author describes her poisoning with suspected anthrax by a Russian FSB agent. Both the lack of Western medical knowledge concerning anthrax and the lack of validation by significant people in her life of her poisoning and illness enhanced the author's sense of marginalization and identification with the Chechens. The Boston Marathon bombers, who are Chechen, illustrate how hate can provide a distorted sense of belonging to terrorists who have had their sense of survival threatened. Terrorism is an act of pseudo–self-organization from the chaos of annihilation anxiety, an attempt to reconstitute a distorted sense of belonging. Hate is the glue that stabilizes the terrorist's tattered psyche with a malignant sense of object constancy. Book Name: Belonging Through a Psychoanalytic Lens |
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| Ending Page | 57 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| Starting Page | 45 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003130192-8 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-12-16 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Belonging Through a Psychoanalytic Lens Cultural Studies Survival Anthrax Terrorism Belonging Poisoning Chechnya Terrorists Distorted Chechens |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
