Using clinical experience with radicalized adolescent girls, the clinical analysis of one of them enables the authors to investigate the intra and inter-psychical issues of jihadist engagement. This offers a first glimpse of psychoanalytical thinking about the resonance between propaganda speeches and the trials of the pubertary. Radicalization is here seen as a symptom, potentially offering the subject a new form of protest that is adolescent and feminine.
How can adolescents raised in European culture take part in terroristic jihad? By demonstrating the return of theological politics and its potentially totalitarian effect, the author shows a possible connection between discontent in the culture, whose specific features need to be establishment, and personal discontent derived from hate and destructiveness.
Adolescence, 2017, 35, 1, 135-147.
Revue semestrielle de psychanalyse, psychopathologie et sciences humaines, indexée AERES au listing PsycINFO publiée avec le concours du Centre National du Livre et de l’Université de Paris Diderot Paris 7