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Herostratic
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Adjective
en herostratic.
en Bettina L. Knapp French Fairy Tales: A Jungian Approach State University of New York Press 2003 103 9780791454695 Would his unconscious feelings of inadequacy be overcome by his Herostratic act (considered as expiation through punishment)?
en R. Hrair Dekmejian Spectrum of Terror w:CQ Press 2007 9781483389219 Recent U.S. examples of Herostratic terrorists are Arthur Bremer, Samuel Bych, and John Hinckley Jr. Bremer shot Governor George Wallace in May 1972, leaving Wallace paralyzed for life.
en Trevor Calafato; Paul Caruana Terrorism in Transition: The Implications of Cyber-Terrorism Savvas Katsikides; Pavlos I. Koktsidis Societies in Transition: Economic, Political and Security Transformations in Contemporary Europe Springer 2015 part II (Politics and Security) 208 978-3-319-13814-5 The Herostratic criminal manifested self-destructive desires aiming to achieve goals with any means while simultaneously generating ‘self-glorification’ and feelings of insecurity among the public (Borowitz 2005).
Derived terms
en Herostratically