Envy is an emotion capable of producing distorted perceptions and cognitions. Intense envy is associated with adverse states such as shame, depression, inferiority, isolation, anxiety, paranoia, and even violent criminal behavior. The false logic of envy asserts that one has an unfavorable disadvantage, while obscuring the relative nature of advantage, so that the other appears enhanced while one feels diminished. This position generates resentment toward the other. There may come a point at which the envious person's goal is to harm the other's ability to enjoy the perceived advantages—the wish to destroy goodness as formulated by Melanie Klein. The psychodynamics are discussed by which destructive envy produces or enhances a persecutory mindset and desire for revenge so powerful that lethal violence is chosen as an option. The concepts of obliterative envy and pseudo-spiritual transformation are introduced, and forensic case examples are used to demonstrate how envy produces persecutory cognitions and facilitates the desire to “obliterate” what is perceived as an unjust, intolerable reality. This psychodynamic process follows an instructive pattern that may benefit forensic and other clinical mental health professionals, as well as practitioners of the increasingly recognized specialty of threat assessment and violence risk mitigation. To this end, the proximal and distal risk indicators of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18), a validated structured professional judgment instrument for assessing the risk of lone actor terrorist attacks, are identified that correlate with the stages of progression toward obliterative envy and pseudo-spiritual transformation.

中文翻译：

---

嫉妒和极端暴力

嫉妒是一种能够产生扭曲的感知和认知的情绪。强烈的嫉妒与羞耻、抑郁、自卑、孤立、焦虑、偏执甚至暴力犯罪行为等不利状态有关。嫉妒的错误逻辑断言，一个人有不利的劣势，同时掩盖了优势的相对性质，以至于另一个人显得增强，而一个人感觉被削弱。这个位置会产生对另一个的怨恨。嫉妒者的目标可能是损害他人享受感知优势的能力——即梅兰妮·克莱因 (Melanie Klein) 提出的破坏善良的愿望。讨论了心理动力学，破坏性嫉妒产生或增强了迫害心态和强烈的报复欲望，以至于选择致命暴力作为一种选择。抹杀的嫉妒和伪精神转变被引入，法医案例被用来证明嫉妒如何产生迫害认知并促进“抹杀”被认为是不公正、无法容忍的现实的愿望。这种心理动力学过程遵循一种指导性模式，可能有益于法医和其他临床心理健康专业人员，以及威胁评估和暴力风险缓解等日益受到认可的专业的从业者。为此，确定了恐怖主义激进化评估协议 (TRAP-18) 的近端和远端风险指标，这是一种经过验证的结构化专业判断工具，用于评估单独行动者恐怖袭击的风险，与消除嫉妒的进展阶段相关和伪精神转变。