Abstract

LOPES, Anchyses Jobim. Arendt versus Freud: the banality of evil versus the radical evil. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2014, n.42, pp. 15-30. ISSN 0100-3437.

Arendt and the controversy over the banality of evil. Genealogy of this concept form Socrates and Saint Augustine. Freud and the concept of death drive. Genealogy of this concept from the the Greek atomists and German romanticism. German romanticism as a common source to the psychoanalytical thought and Nazism. Self-love as the source for radical evil according to Kant. Self-love and narcissism.

Keywords : Banality of evil; Radical evil; Dualism; Romanticism; Death drive; Self-love; Narcissism.

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