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This paper presents a clinical study of subjects willing to become martyrs, based on our experience as a clinical psychologist in prison, within the framework of a mission dedicated to treating subjects returning from Syria, or who have wanted to go there, or else showing a sudden morbid turn toward paths leading to death in the name of God.We focus on the unconscious psychic motivations of such a process: addiction, prejudice, and their dialectic with the Ideal to interrogate these forms of contemporary melancholia for subjects who can only reach a feeling of existence in the project of divine death.We illustrate our hypotheses according to which the dissolution of an inconsistent Ego in a nihilist Ideal Ego is the key to an understanding of what we currently call radicalization in its most extreme form—that of people aspiring to martyrdom, wandering in the morbid zone of the archaic, the “shahids.”