ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the antithesis, vicissitudes of one’s aggression. Specifically, it addresses how the most extreme and opposite actions that can be visited upon the objects of one's aggression, namely suicide and homicide, can develop and become so closely related psychodynamically. The chapter reviews the data from which the author developed a formulation about how the latter phenomenon occurred in one youth. The notoriety of the Simpson case requires little be said because it is still easy to recall. A black jury with a non-black judge acquitted a black man whose defense attorneys, in order to create reasonable doubt in the minds of that jury, had to beat back a prosecution case which identified motive from prior aggressive behavior toward one of the victims, no other reasonable suspects, impressive circumstantial and compelling DNA evidence. Also, the venue of the trial had been changed because the District Attorney of Los Angeles feared rioting if the outcome were different.
