Inter-American Court of Human Rights' reparation judgments ...

38 Revista IIDH[Vol. 49The need to take revenge is a deeply rooted human need that cannotbe moralized away. It is an inevitable and indestructible part of thehuman psyche. At the same time, it is a powerful emotion that can becontained in the appropriate forms. 19Victims should not be chastised for having those intense and humanfeelings. This would turn out to be in re-victimization. Victims needto elaborate the violence suffered, and they do not need extra guiltyfeelings just to fit in to the social image of “goodness”. Their reactionsare a normal and desirable reaction to abnormal conditions.The implementation of an active and integral interdisciplinarywork for torture cases and other human rights violations in the inter-American system could mark fundamental guidelines not only inthe exercise and legal dispositions of human rights of victims, butalso contributing to establish advances in the jurisprudence andrespective doctrine. Greater theoretical developments on the part ofthe psychosocial disciplines will promote the enrichment of other waysof understanding this type of problematic. It is necessary to have amethodological line to set up limits for each discipline (psychological,legal or others). It is essential to try a common language amongthese knowledges, for the victims’ easy and accessible management;therefore, the simple juxtaposition of disciplines or its coincidentalencounter is not interdisciplinary. 20In this intent of articulation from two different discourses, thelegal one (discourse of the objective order) and the psychologicalone (discourse of the subjective order), two languages appear welldelimited and defined by their differences, trying to be interrelated,to be melted sometimes in one, and sometimes being separated. Weshare a time of agreements and tolerant disagreements, discussions andpleasant discoveries, that left us the certainty referring to the human19 Godwin, T., Shattered voices. Language, violence and the work of truthcommissions. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, US, 2004, p.6.20 Stolkiner, A., “La interdisciplina: entre la epistemología y las prácticas”, in:http://www.elcampopsi.com.ar, 1999, p. 1. (Available May 4, 20010. Author’stranslation.)