Abstract

VARGAS, Antonio. Nostalgia and death: the romantic strategy to live. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2017, vol.51, n.3, pp. 169-176. ISSN 0486-641X.

This paper is a result of a lecture which was given at the Journey of Culture of Death/Culture of Life Journey, in Florianópolis, sc, in 2017, as a preparatory activity for the XXVI Brazilian Congress of Psychoanalysis. The author presents an introduction to the main relations between romanticism and the concepts of nostalgia and death. He also studies their outcomes and contributions to the way art and artist have been conceived up until today. The author's purpose is to show that these unique relations, which the romantic idea elaborates on these concepts, survive in their influence because of the permanence of certain social conditions. These conditions precisely are originated in the dawn of this artistic and philosophical movement; they transcend the field of art and take place in the western culture.

Keywords : death; life; nostalgia; romanticism; drives.

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