Islamic Terror: Conscious and Unconscious Motives (Praeger Security International)

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Independent scholar Falk analyzes the genesis of Islamic terror from many standpoints, including religious, cultural, historical, political, social, economic and, above all, psychological. Drawing on his training as a clinical psychologist, Falk's writings specialize in psychohistory and political psychology. Here, he examines topics including infantile experience and adult terrorism, the meaning of terror, terrorists and their mothers, narcissistic rage and Islamic terror, and whether terrorists are normal people, as some scholars claim. He also describes the infantile development of terrorist pathology, non-psychoanalytic theories of terrorism, globalization's effect on terrorism, and the notion of the clash of civilizations. Other topics addressed in this reader-friendly analysis include history's first Islamic terrorists and three important cases ��two recent, deadly terrorists and a primary figure in our current war on terror.

Independent scholar Falk analyzes the genesis of Islamic terror from many standpoints, including religious, cultural, historical, political, social, economic and, above all, psychological. Drawing on his training as a clinical psychologist, Falk's writings specialize in psychohistory and political psychology. Here, he examines topics including infantile experience and adult terrorism, the meaning of terror, terrorists and their mothers, narcissistic rage and Islamic terror, and whether terrorists are normal people, as some scholars claim. He also describes the infantile development of terrorist pathology, non-psychoanalytic theories of terrorism, globalization's effect on terrorism, and the notion of the clash of civilizations. Examining the emotional structure of traditional Muslim families, Falk shows us the Muslim child's ambivalence toward his or her parents, ways in which Muslims abuse women and children, and the roots of Muslim rage, and why all of that plays into the development of future terrorism. Other topics addressed in this reader-friendly analysis include history's first Islamic terrorists and three important cases ��two recent, deadly terrorists and a primary figure in our current war on terror.

The central idea throughout the book is that a person's attitude toward terror and terrorism� �as well as whether he or she becomes a murderous terrorist, or even who wages a global war on terror� has much to do with that person's own terrifying experiences in infancy and childhood. Such terror, usually experienced first in the earliest interactions with the mother, is symbolically expressed, as Falk shows, in fairy tales and myths about terrifying witches and female monsters. Further terror may be experienced in the relationship with the father and also in various other traumatic ways. It is these early terrors, when extreme and uncontrollable, that most often produce terrorists and wars on terror, Falk argues. Thus, his book focuses on the conscious, but also on the irrational and unconscious causes of terrorism.

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Islamic Terror: Conscious and Unconscious Motives (Praeger Security International) Review

The author, an Israeli psychoanalyst, has done an outstanding job in detailing the many, many different ideas that psychologists and psychoanalysts have developed to explain why Islamic, fundamentalist, jihadist suicide-bomber commit their attacks. The author literally `bends over backwards' in presenting any and apparently, just about all psychoanalytical theories regarding the `motives' as to why a suicide-bomber undertakes his/her action. The author shows that psychologists are divided as to what motivates a Muslim to become a suicide-bomber (an Islamikaze). The author believes that the typical suicide-bomber martyr (a Shaheed) has an underlying, unconscious `narcissistic pathology' personality. Are they sane or irrational? It depends. It appears that any psychologist can call some world leader, or some Islamikaze, as being `narcissistic', simply because that person really likes himself. This `in love with himself' produces `delusions of grander' in trying to improve the lot of Muslims by killing others that an Islamikaze dislikes. (Narcissism can be `good' or `bad' depending upon what a person does.) While that may really explain some `over-achievers' personality, the author presents no `empirical' evidence that narcissism substantially explains Islamikaze behavior, besides referring the reader to other books he has written. But is all of this nothing more than perhaps just psyco-babble? Even if we accept the author's diagnosis: that narcissism is the `problem', the author does not explain what the `solution' is in how to entice a suicide-bomber to abort his mission and `reform.' Nonetheless, this book is well worth reading for getting an extensive understanding about the many divergent psychological ideas as to what may `nourish' an Islamikaze's conscious and unconscious behavior: is it due to a young child's hurtful weaning away from his mother or is it due to revelations from the Quran (which the author discounts)? Yes, the author discusses `shame' and the `Oedipal' conflicts of the shaheeds. Chapter contents include: Religious Terror; Terrorists and Their Mothers; Narcissistic Rage and Islamic Terror; The Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorders; The [Muslim] State of Denial; A Clash of Civilizations?; The `Arab Mind'?; Fantasies of Rebirth Through Violent Death; and Suicide Murder as Unconscious Fusion with the Mother, among others. Also see: "Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam" by Fethi Benslama.

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