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Tout semble opposer la violence exhibée des terroristes et la violence cachée des États. Mais les deux restent dans un rapport de forces duel où le mal est projeté au dehors. Les individus y subissent l’emprise totalitaire et séductrice de leurs idéaux et de leurs leaders. L’issue des affrontements violents demanderait la reconnaissance des manques et conflictualités internes, en même temps que celle de valeurs partagées propres à l’espace symbolique « humain ».

Exhibited violence, hidden violence, sublimated violence The opposition between the exhibited violence of terrorists and the hidden violence of governments seems clear. Yet both types of violence convey an inner duel struggle in which evil is projected into the outside world. Individuals are submitted to the totalitarian, almost over-powering hold of their own ideals and those of their leaders. The outcome of violent confrontations demands that internal conflicts and telling gaps be recognised and that simultaneously with this, shared values that are the essence of symbolic “human” space be identified as such.