Abstract

FEIJOO, Ana Maria Lopez Calvo de. Suicide: An understanding from the perspective of existential psychology. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2019, vol.71, n.1, pp. 158-173. ISSN 1809-5267.  http://dx.doi.org/10.36482/1809-5267.ARBP2019v71i1p.158-173.

In this study we debate many interpretations about the suicide phenomenon with regard to society, individual, or the absence of guilt. In this way the suicide is taken as an existential possibility. We present the controversial arguments about the need of training care networks. The position we hold is based on phenomenology and hermeneutics in which the phenomenon of ending one's own life is taken in its most originating status. Therefore, we clarify how the idea of putting an end to life becomes suicide and how this act gained the status of courage or cowardice in a bio-political perspective. We present the differences of psychologists work regarding the decision to end one's own life. And we think upon the act of ending life in its character of despair, pathology and immensurable so that we can argue pro an existential interpretation.

Keywords : Suicide; Hermeneutical Phenomenology; Despair; Immensurable; Pathology.

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