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Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism by Vamik Volkan

Authors: Vamik Volkan
ISBN-13: 9780813390383, ISBN-10: 0813390389
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: November 1998
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Vamik Volkan

Born to a Turkish family on Cyprus, Vamik Volkan is a professor of psychiatry and is the founder of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many books, including Life After Loss and The Immortal Ataturk. He lives in McLean, Virginia.

Book Synopsis

A timely and urgently needed exploration of ethnic violence through a psychoanalytic lens, examining how personal identity interwines with nationality to create hatred of others.

	Preface: Deadly Distinctions: The Rise of Ethnic Violence	3
1	Ethnic Tents: Descriptions of Large-Group Identities	19
2	Anwar el-Sadat Goes to Jerusalem: The Psychology of International Conflicts Observed at Close Range	30
3	Chosen Trauma: Unresolved Mourning	36
4	Ancient Fuel for a Modern Inferno: Time Collapse in Bosnia-Herzegovina	50
5	We-ness: Identifications and Shared Reservoirs	81
6	Enemy Images: Minor Differences and Dehumanization	101
7	Two Rocks in the Aegean Sea: Turks and Greeks in Conflict	116
8	Unwanted Corpses in Latvia: An Attempt at Purification	137
9	A Palestinian Orphanage: Rallying Around a Leader	146
10	Ethnic Terrorism and Terrorists: Belonging by Violence	156
11	From Victim to Victimizer: The Leader of the PKK (Kurdish Workers' Party)	168
12	Totem and Taboo in Romania: The Internalization of a "Dead" Leader and Restabilization of an Ethnic Tent	181
13	Experiment in Estonia: "Unofficial Diplomacy" at Work	202
	Afterword: Psychoanalysis and Diplomacy	225
	Acknowledgments	229
	Endnotes	231
	Bibliography	261
	Index	271