Introduction: Terror and fantasy / Jerry S. Piven -- Hypernationalism and Xenophobia : a thirty-year retrospective with an addendum on terror and grief / Howard F. Stein -- A learning experience / Sander J. Breiner -- The World Trade Center disaster and apocalyptic / Charles B. Strozier -- Anger, rage, and violence / Robert Jay Lifton -- Evil as love and as liberation : the mind of a suicidal religious terrorist / Ruth Stein -- Terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective / Carl Goldberg -- On the psychosis (religion) of terrorists / Jerry S. Piven -- Fundamentalism and terrorism / Robert M. Young -- On the nonduality of good and evil : Buddhist reflections on the new Holy War / David R. Loy -- The idol and the idolizers : Ernest Becker's theory of expanded transference as a tool for historical criticism and interpretation, with an addendum on transference and terrorism / David Liechty -- Fear of death and social behavior : the anatomy of human destructiveness / Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski -- Aum Shinrikyo and apocalyptic violence / Stanley Rosenman -- The World Trade Center and Pearl Harbor : denial in ignoring threats and in writing history / Geroge Victor -- Terror and gallows humor, or, Can life be beautiful after September 11? / Wendy Doniger.