Violation

The third of the three relationship types and the most direct. Connection provides a balanced bond between two sides of an interaction. Sublation absorbs one side into the animus of the other, taking the will and then drawing freely. Violation skips the will entirely and attacks the animus to extract anima by force, which makes it the crudest of the three and the most expensive, since each extraction requires its own attack where sublation requires one act of domination followed by open access. That is why Marsh treats sublation as the basis of durable power arrangements and violation as what happens where sublation has failed or is not available. The violator is the corresponding predator type, destroying the personal membrane or connections of another animus so the released energy can be taken as secondary anima, which specifies what the attack targets. Destruction of connections is as much violation as an attack on the person, since severing a conduit releases what it held. Marsh's examples are deliberately institutional as well as personal, since forced birth, forced sterilization, forced abortion and forced unnecessary procedures are all attacks on an animus performed by authorities, and the negative image is often the victim of rape for reasons the framework treats as structural rather than incidental. The escalation is built into the supply problem, since predation eventually includes outright murder, rape and torture as the same source requires progressively more extraction.

Violation in ordinary and legal use covers breaches of rights, bodies and boundaries, and human rights law enumerates specific violations without offering a general account of what they share. Trauma research studies the effects of bodily and psychological violation. Johan Galtung's typology of direct, structural and cultural violence covers similar ground and distinguishes personal from institutional harm. Marsh's definition unifies these by specifying the mechanism rather than the setting, since an attack on an animus to extract anima describes a rape, a forced medical procedure and the destruction of someone's relationships as one operation, which no legal or clinical framework does.