" Any kind of vindictiveness violates the very core of our self ." (Karen Horney). Katharina Maier discussed in this book, the phenomenon of revenge in history and literature. In the introduction she points out that revenge is an ancient, universal phenomenon. Already in äyptischen, Babylonian and Greek myths, including the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible is revenge for the language.
is considered the first anthropological revenge and deterrence is most effective when they are not even out, but that threat. Vengeance belongs, says the author, in the area of the "law of the jungle" and is therefore a primitive heritage from prehistoric times, (see: p. 9).
revenge always results from situations of injustice would otherwise provide appropriate action "mere" aggression. An act of "revenge" then is a negative action when the actor first damage has been inflicted. The Avenger is thus an Triggering. This raises once to the question of whether someone has committed a wrong objective. As long as one of the subjective view is that a third party has done a little what you do not deserve, you may act out of revenge. Will the Avengers, they were first victims.
Dornseiff John writes in his study of "law and revenge", the "re-injuring Do," a natural successor to the "made good vision will" is. Maier grounded in the episode, why revenge is always personal, and why they must be separated from our sense of justice.
revenge is one of the major themes that tell the people since the beginning of time. The author demonstrates this by exploring The origins of the revenge of the gods' vengeance in the Bible, writes also there to-find record "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," and the many revenge stories "of the book of books" in their thinking can be included. Revenge was in the Old Testament strictly regulated by the way, but certainly the law.
Maier points to the heroes of vengeance at the gates of Troy, among others addressed the myth of "Orestes and Elektra, "the feud company focused in the Middle Ages and forget in this context is not the" mentioned Nibelungenlied. "The relevant considerations, I have read with great interest. Krimhild was not only the incarnation of anarchy revenge, but also the manifestation of military femininity ( . vgl.S. 98) So I also see that I quote Maier's remarkable conclusion. "At the end, the attempt to eradicate the Warlike-feminine. By the death of over-Krimhilde avenger may succeed superficial. But his only act, the patriarchal society shaken to its foundations and it is this impression that the image of the powerful, sword-wielding Krimhilde, the the reader is. "is exactly it.
Maier deals extensively with the subject of revenge and Christianity, the honorary land and revenge tragedies of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Shakespeare's revenge tragedy, the author analyzed with as much detail as the idealistic revenge dramas of Goethe and . Schiller Heinrich Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas" is dedicated to the author an entire chapter to your interpretation is successful I recommend to anyone who deals with Kohlhaas, pages 178 -.. read 185 and perform for seminar work in footnotes
. Those who speak of revenge, of course, must also speak of the "Count of Monte Cristo, the Revenge works Dumas, the history tells of a great wrong. The author makes it clear why this novel is a romantic idea is inherent. Dumas suggests namely that it depends solely on the strength of character of an individual, whether a good personal revenge does not lead to disaster or, (see: p. 195).
Maier drives its Rachanalyse forward to the present day and stated that it is useless revenge impulses and fantasies simply deny and suppress. If they live out mentally decreases the likelihood that we do it in reality.
A very interesting book to read, I recommend you.
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