{"product_id":"123481","title":"Suicide Research ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYGhoimG9OHeTe4B92BqpiDYLX7hn.png?v=1765125965\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Suicide Research \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eReflections on Death and Art, translated by poet Choi Seung-ja\u003cbr\u003e A steady seller loved in Korea for over 40 years\u003cbr\u003e The first complete translation in Korea with additions to previously missing translations\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What book on suicide has garnered the most consistent attention in Korea? \u003cbr\u003eThe next book that can be mentioned after Émile Durkheim's 『Suicide』, a classic in this field, is 『Studies in Suicide』 by Al Alvarez.\u003cbr\u003e This book became a steady seller in 1982 when the edition translated by poet Choi Seung-ja gained considerable popularity, and has continued to sell for nearly 40 years since then, establishing itself as a timeless classic among Korean readers.\u003cbr\u003e The new 『A Study of Suicide』 published by Amsilmunko is a comprehensive revision based on the original translation by Choi Seung-ja, and is the first official complete translation in Korea that includes additional translations of content omitted from the previous edition.\u003cbr\u003e The added volume amounts to approximately 50 pages based on the original book.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \",\"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e preface\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 Prologue: Sylvia Plath\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Historical Background of Suicide\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Suicide, the Closed World\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Suicide and Literature\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Epilogue\/Liberation\u003cbr\u003e Original note\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \",\"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate5164\/MidCate001\/516303987.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \",\"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e When I was a student, I had a physics teacher who was unusually kind and informal, but who constantly talked about suicide in a joking manner.\u003cbr\u003e He was a small man with a broad, ruddy face, a large head covered with curly gray hair, and a perpetually worried smile.\u003cbr\u003e Unlike most of his fellow teachers, he said he had been top of his class at Cambridge University.\u003cbr\u003e One day, after a class, he said in a casual tone that anyone who was about to behead someone should always be careful to put their own head in the bag first, or else there would be terrible chaos.\u003cbr\u003e At those words, all the children laughed.\u003cbr\u003e Soon the bell rang, signaling 1 o'clock, and all the boys went out in groups to eat lunch. \u003cbr\u003eThe physics teacher rode his bike straight home, put his head in a sack, and decapitated himself.\u003cbr\u003e There was no great confusion.\u003cbr\u003e I was very impressed at that time.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.9~10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Disaster, when it finally strikes, is never as severe as anticipated.\u003cbr\u003e She too was able to write with the same sense of relief, and even her writing speed increased, as if to foreshadow the horrors to come.\u003cbr\u003e She realized that in some ways this fear was what she had been waiting for all her life, and that now that it had arrived, she had to harness it.\u003cbr\u003e “The passion for destruction is also the passion for creation,” said Mikhail Bakunin.\u003cbr\u003e That was true for Sylvia too.\u003cbr\u003e She transformed the feeling of anger and pain into a kind of celebration.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.59\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAn artist's creative act does not necessarily help him recover.\u003cbr\u003e In other words, just because an artist expresses his or her fantasy does not mean that he or she is automatically freed from that fantasy.\u003cbr\u003e According to a certain peculiar logic inherent in the act of creation, the methodology of 'borrowing form to express' may be a device that helps artists, rather than escaping from the materials they have drawn from the abyss, get closer to them.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Suicide may be a declaration of bankruptcy in a life filled with failures.\u003cbr\u003e But on the other hand, it can be said that it is the history of a life that ends with that one decision and, through the ultimateity of that decision, escapes at least from complete failure. \u003cbr\u003eSome minimal freedom, the freedom to die in the way and at the time of one's choosing, is what saves life from the wreckage of all those fates one never wanted.\u003cbr\u003e Perhaps that is why totalitarian states feel 'victimized' when their dissidents commit suicide.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Society is something that improves, albeit painfully and very slowly.\u003cbr\u003e In other words, society continues to grow essentially independent of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e Professor Stern gets to the heart of the matter:\u003cbr\u003e “At some stage in his evolution, man must have discovered that he could kill not only beasts and fellow humans, but also himself. \u003cbr\u003eFrom then on, we can assume that human life became something entirely different.” Ultimately, it seems to me that even the most sophisticated and plausible sociological theories short-circuit with this simple insight:\u003cbr\u003e The insight is that suicide, like sex, is a human trait that even a perfect society can never erase.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mandelstam was arrested again and died in a forced labor camp near Siberia.\u003cbr\u003e However, he opposed his wife's suggestion to commit suicide until the very last moment.\u003cbr\u003e His wife later said:\u003cbr\u003e “Every time I brought up the topic of suicide, he would say this.\u003cbr\u003e Why are you in such a hurry?\u003cbr\u003e The end is the same everywhere, and here it is coming upon us in a hurry.' Death, therefore, seemed more real than life, and more concise. \u003cbr\u003e(...) When we are confronted with some terrible horror in this world, or when problems that seem utterly insurmountable weigh us down with particularly strong pressure, then the essential nature of life, the ordinary problems, always recede into the background.\u003cbr\u003e \"How can we hold such awe in the power of nature and the eternal laws of existence when the realistic fears of the world are so acutely felt in our daily lives? It may seem like a strange conclusion, but on the other hand, such worldly fears seem to bring a certain richness to our lives.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.225\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \",\"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eHow has this book been loved for over 40 years?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The reason it's difficult to find consistently read books on suicide is, above all, because social science theories change rapidly. \u003cbr\u003eBooks that deal with outdated theories are often considered outdated.\u003cbr\u003e But why has this book, which focuses on Freudian psychology—perhaps the most outdated of trends—remained so beloved for decades? Perhaps it's because Alvarez has gone beyond simply introducing (and implicitly endorsing) a specific theory by referencing sociology and psychology.\u003cbr\u003e Alvarez's emphasis on Freud is not because he seems most right.\u003cbr\u003e Rather, it is because Freud was a psychologist who suffered many theoretical frustrations.\u003cbr\u003e Freud's view of reality, cultivated in the bustling city of Vienna, gradually crumbled during the World War, and he had to redesign a theory suited to the collapsed world.\u003cbr\u003e Alvarez took note of this attitude. \u003cbr\u003eWhile psychologists after Freud generally believed in their own theories and tried to solidify them, Freud was ultimately unsure (or failed) of his theoretical achievements, and thus believed that the act of putting the human mind into a social theory was ultimately impossible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA community of shared destiny: suicide and creation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this way, Alvarez does not view suicide as a concept subject to social pressure.\u003cbr\u003e The concept of suicide as a victim was one he found difficult to accept.\u003cbr\u003e In the art world where Alvarez, a literary critic and writer, was active, the more energetic a person was, the more likely he or she was to attempt suicide, suggesting that suicide was sometimes an active and positive choice.\u003cbr\u003e In other words, for Alvarez, suicide was one of many sparks of inner human energy. \u003cbr\u003eRetracing the suicide of his real-life colleague and friend, Sylvia Plath, he makes the bold claim that Plath may not have actually tried to die at the time of her final suicide attempt.\u003cbr\u003e At that time, Plath tried to elevate herself to a new level by experiencing a virtual death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e According to Alvarez, Plas would not have died if not for a few misfortunes.\u003cbr\u003e The irony of avoiding death with a surprising probability when you actually tried to die, and then reaching death with an equally low probability when you actually tried not to die.\u003cbr\u003e Plath's life depicts the intertwining of human life and art as a shared destiny against this ironic fate (or, as the book's original title suggests, \"Savage God\"). \u003cbr\u003eAt this point, choosing death becomes an act of expressing one's inner self, much like creation, and thus suicide is elevated to one of the means of opposing the world.\u003cbr\u003e As 『Studies in Suicide』 unfolds this argument, it displays a passion that seems to combine Albert Camus's 『The Myth of Sisyphus』 and Jean Améry's 『Free Death』.\u003cbr\u003e What matters is the human attitude toward the world and the energy to put that attitude into action.\u003cbr\u003e It is a question of what pattern he will take out later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRisking one's life to face the world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this way, Alvarez uniquely blends sociology, psychology, and creative writing to create his own unique perspective.\u003cbr\u003e And then we introduce artists who confront the world in their own way.\u003cbr\u003e While many of them are linked to suicide, Alvarez reminds us that not all suicides are the result of defeat in reality. \u003cbr\u003eWill we live, or will we die, rejecting a life that is like death? How should each human life respond, especially when faced with a modern civilization that is moving toward its own extinction?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, you will not find any public-spirited or good content in this book that seeks to solve the social problem of suicide.\u003cbr\u003e This book, which examines the extent to which humans can engage with the world through their own lives, will only rekindle the hearts of lonely readers who have been left with a dying flame.\u003cbr\u003e And this flame will convey a very welcome and precious warmth to readers living in the 21st century, which is colder than ever before.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \"]\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDate of issue:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 5, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePage count, weight, size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 488 pages | 115*190*30mm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9788932475394\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8932475393 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43894109077546,"sku":"123481","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/2750\/5962\/files\/d85ec9039d51fb19ea27957a755e5ccb.jpg?v=1765428969","url":"https:\/\/librairie.coreenne.fr\/en\/products\/123481","provider":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}