Terrorism and War: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence

454 Pages·2002·69.872 MB·English

by  Coline Covington

TERRORISM AND WAR

TERRORISM AN D WAR
UNCONSCIOUS DYNAMICS OF
POLITICAL VIOLENCE
edited by
Coline Covington, Paul Williams,
jean Arundale and jean Knox
Introduction by
Lord Alderdice
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEOGEMENTS ix
FOREWORD
Coline Covington xi
CONTRIBUTORS xiii
Introduction
Lord Alderdice 1
TERRORISM
Introduction
Coline Covington 19
CHAPTER ONE
Thoughts and photographs, World Trade Centre:
11 th September 2001
Justin Beal 23
CHAPTER TWO
The eleventh of September massacre
Ron Britton 31
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CHAPTER THREE
Thoughts on September 11th, 2001
Philip A. Ringstrom 35
CHAPTER FOUR
Beyond bombs and sanctions
Aleksander V ucho 51
CHAPTER FIVE
From containment to leakage, from the collective to the
unique: therapist and patient in shared national trauma
Doora Miller-Florsheim 71
CHAPTER SIX
The psychodynamic dimension of terrorism
Salman Akhtar 87
CHAPTER SEVEN
Reflections on the making of a terrorist
Stuart W. Twemlow and Frank C. Sacco 97
HATRED, ENMITY AND REVENGE
Introduction
Jean Arundale 127
CHAPTER EIGHT
On hatred: with comments on the revolutionary, the saint,
and the terrorist
K. R. Eissler 131
CHAPTER NINE
The role of hatred in the ego
Ping-Nie Pao 151
CHAPTER TEN
Fundamentalism and idolatry
Ronald Britton 159
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The benign and malignant other
Coline Covington 175
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WHY WAR?
Introduction
Paul Williams 185
CHAPTER TWELVE
Freud/Einstein correspondence 187
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Jung correspondence: letter to Dorothy Thompson 203
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Thoughts for the times on war and death: a psychoanalytic
address on an interdisciplinary problem
Donald M. Kaplan 209
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Psychoanalysis and war
Diana Birkett 229
Psychoanalysis and war-response to Diana Birkett
Isobel Hunter-Broum 239
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Psychological defence and nuclear war
Robert D. Hinshelwood 249
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Silence is the real crime
Hanna Segal 263
THE AFTERMATH OF WAR
Introduction
Jean Knox 287
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Destructiveness, atrocities and healing: epistemological and
clinical reflections
Renos K. Papadopoulos 289
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Omagh: the begirming of the reparative impulse?
Raman Kapur 315
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CHAPTER TWENTY
The trans generational transmission of holocaust trauma:
Lessons learned from the analysis of an adolescent with
obsessive compulsive disorder
Peter Fonagy 329
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
The holocaust and the power of powerlessness:
survivor guilt an unhealed wound
Alfred Garwood 353
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
Exile and bereavement
Barbara Hart 375
Forget
Czeslnw Milosz 391
GLOSSARY 393
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES 407
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chapter Two (pp. 31-34), Britton, R. (2001), liThe 11th of September Massacre".
BPAS Bulletin. Reprinted with the permission of BPAS Bulletin.
Chapter Six (pp. 87-%), Akhtar, S. (1999), liThe Psychodynamic Dimension of
Terrorism", Psychiatric Annals, 29:6 June 1999: 350-355. Reprinted with the
permission of Slack Incorporated.
Olapter Eight (pp. 131-150), Eissler, K. R. (2000), "On Hatred: Comments on the
Revolutionary, the Saint, and the Terrorist". psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 55:
27-44. Reprinted with the permission of Yale University Press.
Olapter Nine (pp. 151-158), Pao, P. (1965), "The Role of Hatred in the Ego".
Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 34: 257-264. Reprinted with the permission of Psycho-
analytic Quarterly.
Chapter Twelve (pp. 187-202), "Freud/Einstein correspondence-Why War?"
S.E., Vol. 22: 199. Acknowledgments: Freud's letter: © 1950, 1964 Sigmtmd
Freud Copyrights & The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London, by arrangement
with Paterson Marsh Agency. Einstein's letter: Permission granted by The Albert
Einstein Archives, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Chapter Thirteen (pp. 203--208), "Jung correspondence-(Sept. 1949) Letter to
Dorothy Thompson", C. G. Jung Letters, vol. 1: 534. Reprinted with the permission
afTaylor & Francis Books Ltd.
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