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ニュー・テロリズムの政治心理: オウム真理教とアルカイダ荒木[Political Psychology of A New Terrorism: The Aum Shinrikyo Sect and Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida]

  • September 9/11 shocked the Japanese. It also reminded me of the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subways by the Aum Shinrikyo and the Oklahoma City Bombing by the American extreme right. A novel form of terrorism seems to have aroused since 1995. Therefore I have tried to analyze some similarity and difference between the Aum Shinrikyo Sect and Usama bin Laden's al-Quaida for several months in order to clarify the content of a >new terrorism<. Although at first assumed that the two incidents were heterogeneous, the more I have analyzed them, the more I have founded out that were homogeneous. This paper tries to examine the similarity between the two groups and point out that their common motivation is a kind of self-actualization developed by A. H. Maslow. The survey includes anomie scale and authoritarian scale. This analysis reveals that economic factor and anomie factor influence over the self-actualization of current Japanese students who must overcome their anxiety aroused by the serious economic crisis as well as their identity crisis developed by Erick H. Erikson. It also points out that such a self-actualization and authoritarian personality developed by Erich Fromm influence over their inclination to religion. As a result it implies that such a perspective could explain also the behaviors of the Aum Shinrikyo Sect and Usama bin Laden' al-Qaida: The two terrorist groups that are mainly consisted of young males escape from freedom committing to religion, namely Aum Shinrikyo or >fundamentalist< Islam to remove anxiety aroused by the serious economic crisis.

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Author:Yoshinobu Araki
Parent Title (Japanese):法政論叢 [The Japanese Journal of Law and Political Science], Vol. 39, No. 1 (2002), pp. 81-93. [doi.org/10.20816/jalps.39.1_81]
Document Type:Articles
Language:Japanese
Year of first Publication:2002
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:PDF-file to download
IdNo:Araki_Y_2002
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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