Venting "abandoned to ourselves"

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Should we therefore diagnose a "narcissistic crisis" when someone emerges from the depths of such despair and makes the decision to voluntarily die? Or is it not rather that the suicide comes, after a slow process, to the conclusion that we are abandoned to ourselves, no matter how many companions we have? It is said that in this world no one can be friends with anyone. Which makes me question, in any case, to what extent the love of another is useful to me. During the great colloquium organized in 1910 by the psychoanalytic movement on the topic "suicide," one of the participants stood up and announced: "Only he who no longer has hope for love dies."

Jean Amery. On Suicide. 1975

 

[Bruce]

"Only he who no longer has hope for love dies."

Exactly!

 

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