Citation

Trichet Y. Bull. Psychol. (Paris) 2020; 570(6): 283-296.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Universite de Paris. Groupe D Etudes de Psychologie)

DOI

10.3917/bupsy.570.0283

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article, which is the first part of a psychoanalytic study of Lortie's case, analyzes the subjective conditions in which Lortie gradually developed his plan for mass murder, which he executed on May 8, 1984. The author thus examines the genesis of a grandiose action project, which emerged in Lortie's mind as early as 1982 and which followed a first subjective shock linked to his fatherhood. This criminal plan was then realized in a violent act that appeared to Lortie as the solution for preventing his psychological annihilation. In his delirious plan, he directed his hatred toward the québécois sovereignist government of René Lévesque, which he identified as responsible for the destruction of Quebec. The analysis of the transcriptions of the recordings made by Lortie the day before the attack encourages us to identify, in this suicideñhomicide project, a psychotic logic of (self-)destruction where sacrifice and altruism prevail. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords

Violent Crime; psychoanalysis; Delirium; Psychoanalysis; Shock; Government; Grandiosity; mass murder; Mass Murder; Mind; psychotic logic