Abstract
In this paper Segal gives brief summaries of her Citation1987 paper ‘Silence is the real crime’ and her Citation1995 paper ‘From Hiroshima to the Gulf War and after: socio‐political expressions of ambivalence’, to show the effect of psychotic factors in the background to September 11. She analyses the symbolic significance and psychological impact of September 11 and in a 2005 Postscript discusses the ensuing war on Iraq.
1. This paper was written for a Symposium held in December 2001 at University College London, ‘On Terror, Trauma, Revenge and Repair: Reactions to September 11th 2001 and its Aftermath’. Versions of the paper were subsequently given at various venues.
Notes
1. This paper was written for a Symposium held in December 2001 at University College London, ‘On Terror, Trauma, Revenge and Repair: Reactions to September 11th 2001 and its Aftermath’. Versions of the paper were subsequently given at various venues.
2. This paper was first given in Hamburg in 1985, in the wake of the IPA Congress, at the inaugural meeting of the International Psychoanalysts Against Nuclear Weapons. The Postscript was added in 2002 and the whole published in Terrorism and War: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence, edited by Coline Covington, Paul Williams, Jean Arundale and Jean Knox (London: Karnac Books).