suicide

Emile Durkheim professed to be able to plot the probability frequency of suicide under certain conditions on a graph.

that may be as it may be but it still doesnt answer the question why.

In New Zealand we beleive that if we talk about something enough we have solved the problem and moreover that we can cure social evils with the exercise of personal will. 

At the moment its suciide week and they (?) are all over the radio teling each other that they can do something about it.

Gee.

I dont think so. And Maori people are trying on the old only Maori know what it is for a Maori person to commit suicide.

Of course this is all blather and I suppose it gives some peop-le comfort to know that somebdoy somewhere is doing something about it.

Sigmund Freud in his 1915 paper on 'mourning and melancholia' had this to say about the 'enigma' of suicide. "the suicidal person was able to kill themself because unconscioulsly they were also killing the one who they hated and whom they had physically incorporated.

The ego can only destroy itself if owing to the power of the loved one as retained within as image, the ego treats itself as though it were the loved one and directs against the self all the rage it feels for the loved one who has rejected or abandoned it.'

Tough stuff and to boot also he say elsewhere that if someone admits to wanting to suciide then they are also directing rage against the person to whom they are making the admission and making them symbolically responsible too.

so much for the busybodies running around thingking they and only they can do something. 

If there is to be a suicide prevention strategy in New Zealand and we desperately need one then a whole more work must go into understanding the causes and why our figures are so high and less of the mouthing off about how WE are going to do something about it.

Dig.