Citation

Kobrin NH. Internet J. Forensic Med. Toxicol. 2007; 8(2).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Anil Aggrawal)

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Abstract

This article is about imagery and its bizarre relationship to suicide terrorism. Imagery is a new and innovative approach to understand concepts that are so foreign to us, the only way to grasp them is perhaps by considering the unconscious. Every attack site communicates an unconscious message to law enforcement and creates terror in the public. This raises the question as to how to explore the symbolic significance and the unconscious meaning of the imagery of "body parts" found at the attack site of a suicide bombing. According to the work of the psychoanalyst, Biven in regular serial killing body parts play a major communicative role concerning the mind of the serial killer. Every attack site constitutes a crime scene, be it a serial killing or a suicide bombing. Serial killers do not have a healthy integrated view of mother and in regular serial killing, body parts are known to express the unintegrated representation of her body as perceived by a little child. In psychological parlance they are called "part objects." It has been observed that serial killers have never been able to separate psychologically from their mother's body and enact their murderous rage targeting and projecting onto innocent victims. In Islamic suicide terrorism, suicide bombing is a collective group experience based on collective group delusions and fantasies, operated and played out by the chief perpetrator as handler. The suicide bomber is the proxy and the unconscious messenger. Regardless of how counter terrorism isolates the violence of a suicide attack from other kinds of violence, I have come to conclude that the pattern buried in the suicide attack sites are inextricably linked to imagery in other kinds of violence, most notably serial killing.

Language: en

Keywords

human; violence; homicide; suicidal behavior; article; fantasy; politics; psychoanalysis; psychological aspect; Tunisia; interpersonal communication; custody; criminal behavior; law enforcement; self concept; religion; delusion; terrorism; offender; mother child relation; rage; defense mechanism; Psychoanalysis; Serial killing; ego; symbolism; christian; imagery; Al Qaeda; Body parts; Christian Ganczarski; Djerba Synagogue; Islamic suicide terrorism; Nizar Nawar; Part object