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This article explores the linguistic roots and symbolic meanings of the word "violence" and its connection to "love." Terms like "anf" (sharpness) and "violence" (intensity) are analyzed through the Arabic language, highlighting their relation to existential peaks and depth. The article also discusses the interaction of the human body and emotional characteristics as semiotic representations of these concepts, focusing on the balance between aspiration and attention in the traits of male and female.
Violence as the Peak of Love:
"Violence as the peak of love" is a contradictory statement, yet it can be proven. Every human instinctively loves themselves, isn’t that so? Animals also instinctively love themselves, and this self-love over others drives them to preserve themselves, which can make them violent. Similarly, a person's love for something leads them to reject its absence, driving them to violence. Thus, the peak of love lies at the peak of life, and the peak of life lies in sexual instinct, which makes a person violent in their existential essence. Sexuality represents the root chakra of survival, the foundation of being or not being. Violence toward someone arises from an inability to live without them, like people’s attachment to food, sex, and religion. Violence expresses a being's love for existence and their absolute refusal of annihilation. Non-violent love, in truth, is a surrender to separation and nonexistence.
Among the pillars of love is *attention,* derived from the Arabic root *hamma*, meaning concern, aspiration, and prominence. It signifies a peak, height, or foundation that upholds a person’s being. We refer to the summit of a mountain as its "hamma," symbolizing sharpness, violence, and exclusivity.
This is the essence of the creature that loves life, jealous of sharing it with anyone else. Life is their ultimate concern and the reason for their existence, their striving, and their passion. For this reason, *aspiration* means and the important is what you desire.
What you desire intensely sharpens your aspiration toward it. Hence, you become violent, like the sharpness and height of a summit and its pride above the depths. Prioritizing what is important leads to classifying life’s desires as follows:
- Sexual and survival importance
- Nutritional and continuity importance
- Emotional and psychological importance
- Intellectual and spiritual importance
These are sharp peaks of existential ecstasy that humans seek to reach. They are the engines of existential will that make a being significant or give them an important pursuit. The violence of the summit lies in its rejection of plurality, with everyone vying for survival at the peak. Each wants life exclusively for themselves. This justifies violence as the peak of love.
Violence seems sharp and frightening because it is significant, lofty, and impactful—meanings intrinsic to violence. The root of violence (‘unf) also produces terms like ‘anf (sharpness protruding from the surface) and a‘naf (most intense). The most intense essence in humans and existence is the mind, for it is the peak of all peaks, the mountain of all mountains, and the most important of all matters.
Those who do not wish to become violent pave the way to becoming materials upon which others exert their violence. Every movement can be classified as violence because the limbs we observe are peaks and aspirations protruding from the body’s surface. Each limb of the human body is significant and seeks to express its violence and vitality. Even an unmoving person is subjected to time's violence, leading to death. Thus, violence exists as an expression of significant matters.
Therefore, will is aspiration and attention. A person who pays no attention to anything desires nothing and is thus subjected to violence (*love*). This represents a form of masochism, contrary to sadism, where the sadist expresses their love through violence. Masochism and sadism are peaks of love: masochism embodies the depth, and sadism embodies the summit.
Semiotic Divisions of the Peaks of Love in Male and Female Bodies:
In a semiotic analysis of the human body, the female reproductive organ represents depth, whereas the male organ represents a summit. For this reason, males tend to exhibit sadism through excessive attention, violence, and will. Conversely, females, as counterparts, wish to experience that violence and attention.
In another aspect, a woman’s chest is prominent while a man’s is flat. The male chest symbolizes balance, representing the "superficial present" between the cones of time. This signifies neutrality in emotional matters. Conversely, women seek emotional violence toward men, visible in the peaks represented by their prominent chests.
In exceptional cases, men with obesity and pronounced chests exhibit emotional sensitivity akin to women, representing a unique form of prominence.
Men and women share four limbs, with the fifth being the head—a peak above the four. Every prominent body part signifies importance, while every recessed part seeks significance. Nothing is insignificant; rather, there is a lack of a certain type of attention. For example, the female reproductive organ is not insignificant but seeks aspiration or will to fill it, much like a peak filling a depth to create neutrality between summit and depth.
The issue between men and women is neither physical nor sexual but emotional. Males are emotionally neutral, while females desire emotional violence. If the female's emotions represent a peak and the male is emotionally neutral, there is no corresponding emotional depth to balance the female’s peak. Thus, her emotions can only be neutralized if she encounters someone with great emotional capacity, which involves activating his feminine senses. Therefore, men must employ their feminine senses of hearing and sight, as women seek for their feelings to be heard and seen.
A biological manifestation of this balancing appears between an infant and their mother. The infant balances the mother’s breast by sucking its milk. This behavior persists in adults as an unconscious desire to balance emotions, with the mouth as the depth and the chest as the peak, and the balance occurring between the two.
Human Senses as Representations of Peaks and Depths:
Why are hearing and sight described as elevated senses and called "refined senses"? These senses are considered refined because they are non-invasive and purely receptive, representing depths rather than peaks or summits.
Touch represents neutrality as it denotes the surface, while the remaining senses actively seek significance. Sound seeks to be heard, and vision seeks to be seen. However, hearing and sight, when assessed based on significance or desire, are non-aspiring senses. They perceive only what exists.
In physiognomy (a concept of my own), eyes are usually recessed. Only rarely are they prominently protruding, and individuals with such eyes tend to see specific things and are not content with mere observation. They fixate on what they desire. This trait may also signify envy, as prominently protruding eyes suggest a desire to acquire everything seen in others.
Those who witness wars and their horrors see what they do not wish to see. Their eyes undergo a form of recessing, becoming depths that truly and truthfully receive everything through hearing and sight. Their entire bodies, before and after the war, reflect paranoia, with their hearing becoming so acute that they perceive faint sounds.
This explains why mute individuals are often more violent than others. The loss of one of their senses—an essential component of reception—causes their desires to manifest more fiercely.