ABSTRACT
Death by murder, the collective murder of one group by another, becomes an object, an object petit a, an object deduced between the victim and the killer. By lifting the prohibition against killing, death by murder becomes available for consumption and in turn engenders the desire for more murder. Mass murder is committed by one human being against another and spreads as a murderous jouissance that constantly reproduces itself. This annullation is the production of a constructed and willful ignorance on the side of the perpetrator, which in turn provokes a silence and a silencing, a paralysis on the side of the victim. A murder signifies an act of cutting that founds the origin of a people, which does not suppose conscious knowledge, and carries the seal of primal repression. Religion is thus founded collectively on the condition that this repression becomes the mystery or sacred enigma.
