Transgression

The transgression is the action to transgress, not to respect an obligation, a law, an order, rules. By extension, a transgression indicates the fact of:

  • not to conform to an attitude current, natural,
  • to progress at the expense of another thing, to encroach on something, to invade,
  • to exceed a limit, or its limits,
  • of going against what seems natural.

Ethics and psychology

To transgress, it is to some extent to cross the Rubicon ethical or moral, not to respect a Loi, not to conform to rules considered as acquired, integrated and accepted of all, to cross a limit, a prohibited line, generally knowingly, while calling in question in a virulent and sometimes ironic way, the rules which one ridicules thus openly.

to be located compared to an ethics

Indeed, the transgression often has an ostentatious side: one also transgresses to point out oneself, one enfreint a law to be considering and identified like a radiant, even rebellious or dissenting, to be located compared to a system of value and an ethics, a whole of rules of behavior.

formation of the personality

In psychology, in the child and the teenager, the tendency to the transgression of the rules corresponds at an important stage of formation of the personality and intellectual development (it can even be related to the appearance of a true critical spirit, because it then calls into question the legitimacy of a system of value regarded before as self-explanatory, obvious, natural and necessary). It can also be a manner, in particular for the child, to test the limits of what is allowed, of what is possible. To even test the resistance of his/her parents, its tutors or its " maîtres" … The transgressive act calls and requires a sanction, a punishment. It can sometimes be useful, in " négatif" , with the identification and the recognition of the codes of conduct and the moral principles that one wanted enfreindre, even with the acquisition of the concepts of good and evil.

transgressive act and system of value

In addition, transgression and system of value go hand in hand and do not conceive one without the other: when one transgresses, it is always compared to a given system of value, that one then tends to exceed punctually and to which, consequently, one is brought to refer. Paradoxically, the transgressive act thus affirms the existence of these moral principles and these codes of conduct which he claims to call in question (if the rule disappeared, the transgression would not have any more a raison d'être and disappears in its turn). S.M.

Geology

In the field of the Geology, the transgression is the invasion of the Continent S by the Mer, due to a depression of the emerged grounds or a general rise in the sea level (or of the two cumulated effects). The transgression is one of the movements of the épirogénèse.

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