ABSTRACT
The suicide is momentarily created as an individual thereby, relationality's kind of individual; "wayward women" live by that kind of moment. If suicide were Emile Durkheim's marker for pointing out the social constraints on what is regarded in the European vernacular as a supremely "individualistic" act. For many Western peoples, the "problem" with suicide is that it is interpreted as a supremely individual act, and remains so however much social factors bear down on it. Taking seriously the tension of agency expands the horizons of what may count as suicide fields. Western "individuals" are caught up in relational networks, some of which they can do something about, others less so, and cultivate them to various degrees. Being open to suicide as a "cultural production", often mobilizing fields of action apparently concerned with other matters is not just to appreciate the place of suicide in social life but the dimensions of social life it in turn illuminates.
