Lexicul în abisul autosuprimării
Lexicon in the Abyss of Self-suppression

Summary/Abstract: The study of the vocabulary items appropriated by female characters with self-aggressive tendencies deserves much more attention than it is currently given for several reasons that we consider fundamental. The first is that the predilection towards self-aggression and the intention of self-annihilation as a being – an integral part of society – can be anticipated through the prism of several key words and expressions that fit the specific manifestation of suicidal behaviour. The relationship between the vocabulary of literary female hypostases and their outcome is a very close one, with the lexicon occupying a special place in the externalisation of the frustrations and motivations underlying self-suppression. The analysis of the vocabulary of various female characters in established works of world literature highlights a series of dissatisfactions on various levels (family, social, professional, etc.), as well as several unsatisfied desires and unfulfilled aspirations, perceived as failures, which in fact give rise to the opportunity to curtail their existence. Suicide thus emerges as a result of more or less vocal lamentations, which gradually and subtly slip the idea of death into the intimacy of the work, but culminate, in the end, in an aggressive exposition of the intention to cease to be. Therefore, in the present study, we will try to capture the manner in which the female characters under analysis tried to reveal the reasons behind the decision to commit suicide long before resorting to the extreme gesture.

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