1. Guilt and Violence in Raging Bull
... we feel guilty it is because we have become at the same time accuser and accused, condemned and executer, victim and perpetrator. As the Catholic philosopher Paul Ricoeur says: Guilt becomes a way of putting oneself before a sort of invisible tribunal which measures the offense, pronounces the condemnation, and inflicts the punishment; at the extreme point of interiorization, moral consciousness is a ... look which watches, judges and condemns; the sentiment of guilt is therefore the consciousness of being inculpated and incriminated by the interior tribunal; it is mingled with the ... ...
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