Abstract

BOIANOVSKY, Daniela. Again: ¿por qué la guerra?. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2020, vol.54, n.1, pp. 147-155. ISSN 0486-641X.

From the correspondence between Einstein and Freud, published under the title "Why War?" (Einstein and Freud, 1933), this paper suggests the hypothesis that our psyche's first challenge is to go beyond a principle in hatred, which would be based on the experience of helplessness brought up by birth, and reproduced in future experiences of castration. The capability for dealing with failure, with one's own impulses' dissatisfaction, will be decisive in structuring the psyche, in elaborating castration and inscription in oedipal interdiction, as well as in recognizing alterity and law. The refusal of castration reality can lead us to scenarios of hatred, intolerance of differences, and to the predominance of death drive so present today. I conclude, under the echo of Freud's anguish, by inviting us to pay attention to the sickening of our society and, perhaps, by strengthening the motor for life and its integrative potential, to create alternatives to the maze of hatred and death that our destructiveness has led us to.

Keywords : drive; castration; destructive impulses; oedipal triangle; perversity.

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