Suicide and aggression. Opposed or interconnected?
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Savižudybės; Agresija; Smurtas; Suicides; Aggression; Violence.
ENFor ages suicide and violence have been considered as the most opposite phenomena. On the one side, the violence, the aggression, the murder were regarded as concepts connected with the power, an attack, a victory. On the other side, a suicide was always seen as a weakness, a withdrawal, a defeat. Violence and aggression were always associated with a seizure and taking over what belonged to other. A suicide was seen as a deprivation, as a refusal of the last thing a person has - its life. As quite different were seen also a violent person and a suicide. The first one is imaged as a strong, assertive, authoritative, sadistic and cruel personality. The second is seen rather as a weak, submissive, masochistic person, a victim of a cruelty. Both phenomena were involved in quite different social discourses. A violence was usual seen as a criminal matter. It had to be regarded in terms of law, its violation, of the guilt and punishment. The suicide was regarded much more in terms of the medicine, especially psychiatry. A murder, a rapist, a person which with intend commits harm to another person were always seen as a target for punishment, as person who has to suffer, and this way to redeem their fault. Contrary to this, a suicide tended to be seen as a person needing help, support and sympathy. Violent people had to be in prison, suicide - rather in hospital. First ones had to be guarded, second ones- protected. [Extract, p. 86]
