ABSTRACT
C. B. Tarantelli, adding to E. Hopper’s ideas, proposes that terror organisations develop forms of magical thinking that enable their members to eliminate death anxiety. This chapter focuses on developments in group analytic theory, and certain psychoanalytical conceptualisations in order to describe the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS) as a Salafi jihadi entity. The tendency towards the development of more elementary, tribal family-like structures within the Islamic population in the Middle East can be understood as an attempt to regain and sustain a sense of cohesion, involving increased integration, solidarity, and coherence. The outcome of the reversed family is often a pathological structure that resorts to perverse solutions, in which the bad and destructive social elements have no choice but to react with violence and envy to the pain they cause. Perversion is about the abolition of differences that make up reality between sexes and generations.
