THE REVENGE PROJECT (HÄMNDPROJEKTET)
Jenny Jägerfeld
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In a moving box, Nico finds her old diary and starts flipping through it. Among more or less embarrassing notes about infatuations and drunkenness, she reads something that cuts straight to her, decades later: ‘‘Revenge sets me free!”
Although she is now an adult, a parent, a trained psychologist — in other words, someone who absolutely should not be indulging in revenge fantasies of any kind — she notices that her desire for revenge is not extinguished. It’s just buried under a thin layer of rushed-over civility.
For then something terrible happens. Something that makes her rage flare up like a gunshot in the brain, her obsession rage like a wildfire in her chest, and rekindles her thirst for revenge.
The Revenge Project delves deep into our contemporary view of retribution. Is it possible to rationalize revenge? Is there a right and a wrong way to react to trauma? And how do you actually regain control when someone has done you real harm?
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