Amok

The amok is a behavior specific to the populations austronésiennes, by which the subject, to avenge death for the one as of his or simply an insult, becomes insane furious and kills as many people as it can it until itself is put at death. By extension, the term indicates exaggerated and a Mental disease whose symptom is the great propensity of the subject to insult those which surround it.

References

Literature

The behavior of the amok was described by Stefan Zweig in its news Amok (Der Amokläufer) where the narrator meets in a boat a " amok" who describes his madness to him when after one long period of insulation in Malaysia, a white woman subjects a very particular request to him…

It was also evoked in the science fiction novel of John Brunner, All with Zanzibar (1968), in which the author represents the world in 2010, from a sociological point of view. The world population lives then under the constant threat of a crisis of Amok at one of its contemporaries, called Amocheur. Amocheurs, create by the social pressure, become taken of a furious madness which leads them to attack their entourage all while equipping them with a superhuman physical force. One of the heroes of the novel, American secret agent, is brought to meet Amocheur, on the imaginary island indonésienne of Yatakang.

In the black Line , novel of Jean-Christophe Grangé, inhabitants of the South-East Asia evokes the amok as being responsible for the fatal frenzy of a Serial killer French party food in their area.

Amok with the cinema

An episode of the saga Star Trek is entitled " Amok Time" (French title: The evil of the country) where it is discovered that the Vulcan male, Spock in fact, must undergo the cycle of Pon farr which obliges it to fight against one or more rivals. Although nondefinite as such, the concept of amok is omnipresent in the film Freefall (Falling down), film which will inspire the song of Disiz the plague " I pète plombs".

Data base

In the series Incal of Moebius and Jodorowsky, the amok is mentioned. It is here about a secret and terrorist organization.

See too

medicine

The amok as a fatal pathology is generally regarded as finding its cause in the opiate consumption. (Source: Larousse dictionary)

External bond

  • article of Marcel Mauss on the “physical Effect on the individual of the idea of death suggested by the community”.

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