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Mağduru Suçlama Psikolojisi ve Benlik Savunması
Edebiyat dehası Dostoyevski’nin bu alıntısı, sosyal psikoloji literatüründe sıkça incelenen "Mağduru Değersizleştirme" (Devaluation of the Victim) ve Leon Festinger'ın Bilişsel Çelişki Kuramı ile doğrudan ilişkilidir.
Bilişsel Çelişki ve Rasyonalizasyon: Birey birine zarar verdiğinde içsel bir gerilim (dissonance) yaşar. Bu gerilimi çözmenin iki yolu vardır: Ya hatasını kabul edip suçlulukla yüzleşecek (ki bu ego için çok hırpalayıcıdır) ya da zarar verdiği kişiyi "nefret edilesi" biri olarak kodlayacaktır. İkinci yol seçildiğinde, yapılan haksızlık zihinde meşrulaştırılmış olur.
Adil Dünya Teorisinin Ters Yüz Olması: Bazen de sırf "dünya adildir" inancını korumak için, zarar gören kişinin bunu hak ettiğine inanmak isteriz. Kendimizi aklamak adına karşı tarafı suçlu ilan etmek, insan psişesinin en ilkel savunma biçimlerinden biridir.
Dostoyevski’nin yüzyıl önce kaleme aldığı bu gözlem, bugün modern psikolojinin "kendini haklı çıkarma" (self-justification) mekanizmalarını ne kadar erken çözdüğünün en büyük kanıtıdır.
My mother died today, maybe yesterday, I don't know.
(The stranger)
What's the point of living if life is so absurd? (Sisyphus said)
Life is meaningless but worth living.
According to Albert Camus, philosophy has only one problem and that is suicide. According to Camus, it is not possible to understand this world. When thought like this, existence is unnecessary and in this case suicide occurs, but according to Camus, suicide is not a solution to this. We are human beings and we search for the meaning of life, and this is where the concept of absurdism emerges. The dictionary meaning of absurdism is empty justification and does not comply with logic. Its philosophical meaning is that there is a break between human consciousness and the world. So, what are the triggering factors that reveal absurdism? Your life monotony, the passing of time, alienation, loneliness, anxiety and the inevitability of death.When we look at these factors, suicide seems attractive to us, but Albert Camus offers us three main ways to survive in life, the first of which is suicide. Existence is meaningless, then we should all perish, but Albert Camus expresses that suicide is an easy giving up. The second is to hope. It's like hoping that there is a creator. If there is a God who creates everyone, then life has a meaning or holding on to the existence of family and loved ones, but Camu rejects this too because Camu does not believe in God and our loved ones will die one day is an illusion for the last one, and the third one rebels.As an example, I would like to tell you about Albert Camus book Sisyphus said. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is a king who rebelled against the gods and was punished by them. His punishment was to drag a huge rock to the top of the mountain, but the rock fell again
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Set in Kyoto during a period of societal decay, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s Rashomon explores the desperation of survival in a world unraveling at its seams. The story begins with an unnamed servant, recently dismissed and sheltering from the rain beneath the crumbling Rashomon gate. The gate, once a proud symbol of the city, has become a place of neglect and death, where unclaimed corpses are discarded. Confronted with his dire circumstances, the servant debates abandoning his moral principles to ensure his survival. His thoughts veer towards theft, but he is paralyzed by the weight of his conscience, caught between righteousness and the instinct to live.
The tension escalates when he notices an old woman scavenging hair from corpses beneath the gate. Her act initially horrifies him, and he confronts her in a moment of moral outrage. The woman defends her actions by rationalizing that the dead had been dishonest in life, implying that her actions are merely a continuation of the cycle of deceit and survival. Her reasoning strikes a chord with the servant, who realizes that survival demands ruthless pragmatism. In a shocking reversal, he attacks the old woman, steals her belongings, and disappears into the night, having fully surrendered to the amorality he once resisted.
Akutagawa’s Rashomon delves deeply into the tension between morality and survival, posing difficult questions about human nature. The servant’s transformation from an ethical man to a thief highlights the fragility of moral principles when faced with desperation. The story suggests that morality is not an absolute but a construct shaped by circumstances; in a world devoid of order and stability, self-preservation often takes precedence over virtue. This bleak view of humanity is reinforced by the old
Oh, here we go again. Another book by Fredrik Backman. I just can’t find the right words to explain how this author makes me feel. He makes me feel frightened, peaceful and sad at the same time. I can’t keep a straight face whenever my hand reaches for one of his books. I swear that i have never ever read books of any kind like his. Every time i read one of his books something dies in me and something much more precious is born instead. I never knew you could feel like that about books. It’s exactly how life makes you feel on daily occasions and that’s what i love about his writing. It’s simply about life but it makes you appreciate everything about it and mourn for even the smallest of losses. You learn to appreciate the things you have and his books are a really good way to be proud of accomplishing the little things and simply surviving. Because we underestimate it, the way we still hope to see the other day, the way we never get tired of it, the way that there’s always hope. And his books are a really good reminder of that. Actually, maybe the best. I haven’t come across anything that can surpass this yet. He writes about human struggles but in the most heartbreaking and heartwarming way at the same time. He reminds you that you’re only human. I can’t appreciate his existence as a writer enough.
As for the story it’s about a terrible crime being commited in a small community and we get to read the survivor’s pain and the way she deals with it, the justification of the predator, the suffering of all their loved ones and the rest of the town taking sides. It’s a really tough experience reading it though, i must warn you. You experience injustice in the most painful way and sometimes all you want to do is scream and nothing else. Being a woman always comes with much
