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This discussion of Chasseguet-Smirgel's paper on “Body and the world” deals with her attempt to fathom the minds of terrorists from the works of creative authors who display character-traits which are similar to those assumed to exist in terrorists: the combination of violent sadism and suicidal ideas, the identification with Christ, and political and religious beliefs of an extremist nature. The...