ABSTRACT
The "revelation" of 1895 acted as a spur in intensifying David Émile Durkheim search for religion in heretofore unrecognized places. While religion inhibits suicide because of the powerful control it exercises over thought and conduct, once humans break free from the yoke of religion, he said, by viewing it merely as a "symbolic idealism," it loses the protective role it has played in traditional societies. As is well known, Durkheim's objective was to show that suicide is not an individual phenomenon, but a social phenomena with a clear statistical regularity that can be linked to differential attachments to society. Basically, he explains everything, at this moment, by religion; the prohibition of marriage between relatives is a religious matter; punishment is a phenomenon of religious origin; everything is religious. After dividing suicide up into three general types—egoistic, altruistic and anomic, Durkheim linked the suicide rate from different European countries with each type of suicide.
