THE SUICIDAL SELF
THE SUICIDAL SELF

Summary/Abstract: The perspective we focus on in the present article takes account of the individual’s (in)ability to externalize the inner world (which contains the subjective interpretation of the outside world) and the outcomes of such a process or of its absence. It is a process that acknowledges otherness (be it the latent other within/the shadow – Jung’s archetype, or alterity outside the self). Yet it also implies its acceptance or rejection, a means of dealing with the inner turmoil, a path to self-discovery and improvement, counterbalanced by its dark side understood as selfexposure that might result in the dissolution of the self. The Woolfian character we have chosen for our analysis, Rhoda (The Waves), mirrors the destructive outcomes of such a denial.

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