Abstract

QUEIROZ, Cristiane Holanda  and  PINHEIRO, Clara Virgínia de Queiroz. Do mal-estar da existência ao biologismo das relações. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2006, vol.6, n.1, pp. 85-110. ISSN 1518-6148.

With the increasing diffusion of the scientific-technological discourse in the social ambit, searching to exceed the limits of the human experience through the manipulation of life in its biological reality, we can observe the constitution of new ways of conceiving our notion of humanity. Such conception, that has been forged in the last decades, is a contraposition to psychoanalysis from two aspects defined here, which are the dissemination of the theory developed by Sigmund Freud as one of the most relevant and most influential thoughts for the formation of modern subjectivities; and, mainly, the notion that the subjective condition can only exist in function of drive restrictions that, in turn, generate a discontent impossible to be overcome by the subject. Therefore, having in mind the distinction between how the human experience is established by the psychoanalysis and by the biomedical technologies, we considered, in this text, to delineate such differences using as a guide the fictional book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Initially, we determined the bases of the subject existence on Freud's theory and, after that, we commented the prospective visions referring to the larger insertion of the "technosciences" in people's lives, establishing which repercussions that insertion can bring.

Keywords : scientific-technological discourse; psychoanalysis; discontent; happiness and literature.

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