• Vengeance is more than this. It is actually at the base of all violence.
• Vengeance can be seen as a compensation to a lack; the balancing act to a given imbalance; as the equilibrium to a disequilibrium; as the relief to a frustration; as a panacea to a given pain; as a catharsis to a suffering.
• If one looks at vengeance not just as violence expressed outside, externally -- but also as internal violence registered within oneself, then one can see that vengeance is always present – even if subtly – always working in the background. It is always present in the work of the structure act-object, trying to compensate one's inadequacy, one's lacking, one's fears, one's frustrations; trying to compensate one's reverie nucleus -- one's cultural nucleus.
Realize that all "acts" requires an "object" to "act" upon. So, a "victim" or a "recipient" is required to have someone receive the "act" -- in this case the violence.
I have to express my frustration, my anger, my internal violence. Sorry, my dear, but I do not have anyone except you to give it to.
"How revenge is born in the social group and in the human mind. Which is the belief at the bottom of our minds; wouldn’t it be the belief that making the other suffer compensates that cosmic imbalance that has taken place due to the injustice he/she did?" --Silo in Grotte, Italy, 06/05/2008, http://siloswords.blogspot.com/2009/03/silo-in-grotte.html•••
