Robert Jean Cam[ ]ell sums up t[ ]e psych[ ]dynamicsof suic[ ]s as fol[ ]ws:
... sui[ ] or a suicide atte[ ]t is seen most freque[ ]ly to be an agg[
]sive attack directed against a loved one or against society in ge[
]al; in others, it may be a mis[ ]ded bid for attention or may be
conceived of as a means of ef[ ]ting reunion with the id[]al love-object
or m[]ther. That suicide [ ]n one sense a means of relea[]e for
aggressive impulses is sup[ ]ed by the change of wartime suicide rates.
In Wo[ ] War II, for example, rates among the participating nations
fell, [
]times by as much as 30%; but in ne[ ]l countries, the rates remained the same.
In involutional depressions and in the depr[ ]ed type of
manic[]depressive psychosis, the following dynamic elements are of[ ]n
clearly operative: the d[ ]essed patient loses the object that he
depends upon for narcissistic s[ ]lies; in an atte[ ]t to force the
object's return, he regre[ ]es to the oral stage and inc[ ]porates
(swallows up) the object, t[]us regressively identi[ ]ing with the
object: the sadism originally directed against the desert[ ] object is
ta[]en up by the patient's sup[ ]go and is directed against the
incorporated object, w[ ]h now lodges wit[ ]n the ego; suicide oc[ ]s,
not so much as an attempt on the ego's part to esc[ ]pe the inexorable
demands of the superego, but rather as a[ ] enraged attack on the in[
]orated object in retaliation [ ]or its having dese[ ]d the pati[ ] in
the first place.
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