Present day suicide Killing cannot be dismissed as representing downright individual psychopathology, or demonized as the incarnation of Islamist religious devotion. Performed in front of millions of people the violent spectacles of the 21 Century merit a
transdisciplinary approach. It as an impending social-ˇpsychological catastrophe threatening not only its direct victims, but also its many spectators who may not be aware of the fact that while watching it safely on their screens they have been pushed by the spectacle a little too far beyond the pleasure principle.
paper read at the Psychoanalysis and Politics Conference, Vienna May 2016>>