Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781597976015
1597976016
9781597975049
1597975044
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Terrorist organizations have been able to market mass murder under hysteria's banner of alleged martyrdom. But when it comes to understanding Islamic suicide terrorism in particular, there is much more to it than martyrdom. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin dismantles the psychological dynamics of suicide terrorism to help the reader gain a new perspective on one of the most destructive forces the world has witnessed to date." "Until now, no one has explained why the mother-child relationship is central to understanding Islamic suicide terrorism. The Banality of Suicide Terrorism exposes the very ordinariness of one of the deepest yet most poorly understood causes of the suicide bomber's motivation: a profound terror of abandonment that is rooted in the mother-child relationship. According to Kobrin, this terror is so great in the would-be suicide terrorist that he or she must commit suicide (and mass murder in the process) in order to fend off that terror of dependency and abandonment. The suicide terrorist seeks a return to the bond with the mother of early childhood - known as maternal fusion - by means of a "death fusion" with his or her enemies, who subconsciously represent the loved (and hated) maternal figure. The terrorist's political struggle merely serves as cover for this emotionally terrifying inner turmoil, which can lead down the path of ultimate destruction."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Kobrin, Nancy. Banality of suicide terrorism. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2010 9781597975049
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