Citation

Triana JMH. Universitas Philosophica 2022; 39(78): 163-183.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022)

DOI

10.11144/Javeriana.uph39-78.esdd

PMID

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Abstract

This writing approaches the experience of suicide by use of Emmanuel Lévinas's concepts of the saying and the said, in order to show that the suicidal person is an invisible victim. The suicidal person needs not to be excluded nor measured in objective terms. They need to be cared for by someone who helps them to stay alive through philosophical reflection. Thus, the suicidal person will find in Philosophy a place to treat their soul. In order to build this approach, this paper in divided into three parts that follow a brief introduction: first, the relationships between suicide, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity are addressed, so as to show the impor-tance of classifying suicide in the realm of the saying and not of the said, and putting forward the struggle of the suicidal person to be heard in the world of the saying, so that the care of the other prevails both subjectively and intersubjectively; then, the encounter between the saying and the said is addressed through the presentation of the notions of trace, wound, and the foreign experience; and finally, it is proposed that philosophy, when practiced as an embrace "among others", is a way to understand and to approach the Other. © 2022, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. All rights reserved.

Language: es

Keywords

Lévinas; life; listening; mental health; suicide