Abstract

JUNIOR, Oswaldo Giacoia. Necessity, freedom and repetition: on the power of the paradox. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2012, vol.46, n.1, pp. 89-104. ISSN 0486-641X.

The work at hand focuses on central ethical matters of Friedrich Nietzsches ideas, taking on a Zen Buddhist interpretation, to which living and experience are more relevant than a speculative or theoretic comprehension of ethical problems. I intend to show that the mediation of the Zen Buddhist philosophy allows for a more productive understanding of concepts such as eternal recurrence, repetition, responsibility, freedom, resentment, feelings of guilt and moral conscience, taking as a basis the dimensions of personal and existentialist experience. As a consequence of this hypothesis, a horizon of meaning is unleashed which allows the consistent approach, on the level of ethics, of philosophical theory with psychoanalytic experience, resorting to the possibilities opened by the concepts of repetition compulsion, subject to be, and responsibility. Such an approach is a task to which the insights of the Zen Buddhist line of thought contribute, along with the philosophic irony of Soren Kierkegaard, in order to fertilize the dialogue between Freud's metapsychology and Nietzsche's philosophy.

Keywords : ethics; recurrence; repetition; compulsion; subjectivity; freedom; responsibility; guilt feeling.

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