title: The metallic womb.
abstract: This study of malevolent narcissism examines the relationship between the Washington Snipers, Muhammad and Malvo, from the perspectives of attachment theory and Kleinian theory. Muhammad embodied a perverted understanding of manliness. Malvo was desperate for the love of a father, and fused with the omnipotent destructiveness of John Muhammad. Together they embarked on a failed Quest, recreating the original infant/caregiver scenario, which in their experience was about destruction and death, rather than gratitude and life. Malvo and Muhammad were perfect together, merged into one unit devoted to murder. Their victims were random and multiple, like their early caregivers.
authors.affiliation: smrstn@aol.com
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Somerstein
mesh_terms: D004219:District of Columbia; D006252:Hate; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D009289:Narcissism; D009769:Object Attachment; D011572:Psychoanalysis