What is vengeance? German born American social psychologist and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Ph.D., asseverates, in his The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), that vengeance is an instantaneous response to severe suffering heaped upon a person or his group. It is not a typical aggressive defensive maneuver because it occurs a posteriori to the harm exerted, when there is no impending threat. Moreover, the magnitude supersedes regular aggression, because of its odious, rob