Depth in 21st-Century Cells? European Salafi Jihadi Terrorism and Psychoanalysis in the Luciferian Age

IF 0.4 Q2 Social Sciences New Criminal Law Review Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI:10.1525/NCLR.2018.21.4.592
R. Lippens
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The psychoanalytic interpretation of Salafi jihadism and terrorism, or the application of psychoanalytic categories to said issues, are not very common. Indeed the mobilization of psychoanalysis in this context very often prompts accusations of orientalism and cultural imperialism. Both academic discourse and, to a lesser extent, policy, tend to “explain,” whether genuinely, strategically or tactically, or diplomatically, the emergence of “home-grown” Salafism by pointing to social, welfare, or educational deficits in the jihadists’ biographies. In this article we make an attempt to focus on psychoanalysis (or “depth psychology,” as it was sometimes called in a now-bygone age) to shed light on the phenomenon. Taking cues from Jan Hendrik van den Berg’s neo-Freudian and phenomenology-inspired critique of classical psychoanalysis on the one hand, and Peter Sloterdijk’s recent work on bastardy on the other, we offer a reading of European home-grown Salafi jihadist and terrorist inclination as reactions to failure, and as manifestations of a deep sense of inadequacy, in some of those who are unable to live up to what has become the predominant, imperative code in the cultural mainstream: to live one’s life in radical, complete, and total sovereignty, undetermined and in absolute omnipotence. This code, and the exigencies it imposes, we suggest, have become mainstream in the age which we have called Luciferian.
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21世纪细胞的深度?路西法时代的欧洲沙拉菲圣战恐怖主义和精神分析
对萨拉菲圣战主义和恐怖主义的精神分析解释,或者将精神分析分类应用于上述问题,并不常见。事实上,在这种背景下,精神分析的动员经常引发对东方主义和文化帝国主义的指责。无论是学术论述,还是在较小程度上的政策,都倾向于通过指出圣战分子履历中的社会、福利或教育缺陷,真诚地、战略性地、战术地或外交地“解释”“本土”萨拉菲主义的出现。在本文中,我们试图关注精神分析(或“深度心理学”,因为它在现在的时代有时被称为)来阐明这种现象。以简•van den Berg的新弗洛伊德和phenomenology-inspired古典精神分析批评一方面,和彼得Sloterdijk最近的工作庶出,我们提供一个阅读欧洲本土的沙拉菲圣战和恐怖倾向对失败的反应,和作为一个深深的不足的表现,一些人无法履行已成为主要的,必要的代码在文化主流:独立自主:在根本的、完全的和完全的主权中生活,不确定的和绝对的无所不能我们认为,这个准则,以及它所强加的紧急情况,已经成为我们称之为路西法时代的主流。
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