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After the end of the world: How to orient yourself in thinking and in life from now on? [References]
New waves in social psychology ; : 83-94, 2021.
Article in English | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-1958870
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If the COVID-19 pandemic sets the tone for our present condition, it is "only" the last revelator of the failure of modern civilization. The "developed" world is facing, in particular, an unprecedented regressive turn the profound political, ethical, and civilizational setback that we are seeing and living;the destruction of the human in us. From within this civilizational bankruptcy, this essay strives to project an answer to the question (Beckettian question par excellence) How to continue? How can we orient ourselves in thinking and in life from now on, after the ruin of faith in man, postulated by humanisms? A good guide the correspondence between Freud and Einstein, Why war? This outlines an anamnesis of the assumptions of all humanism. The human constitutively carries within himself "something" that exceeds him and that, as such, is not human. This excess is inescapable;rather, it requires a "work", the "work of culture, Kulturarbeit," a "care", and a "cure" (the cura sui). Outlining a turnaround movement (retournement) from the bankruptcy of modernity, Freud thus opens the way for what really concerns us a thought of after-humanism. It is here that we find Lacan's seminar on the "Ethics of Psychoanalysis," built around the figure of Antigone-one that does not give up on his desire, which is faithful to unconditional desire. Civil disobedience. Tragic conception of ethics. This essay makes, by the way, some observations on the state delinquency that is devastating Brazil today. And it leaves a question How to explain, in a Republic, the unbelievable impunity of a notorious genocide and ecocide placed at the top of the state, openly involved with organized crime? What to conclude from this banality of evil? And the lack of consequent indignation of the so-called progressive forces? This attests to the structural lack, in that "psychic apparatus" called "Brazilian civilization", of a true "work of culture". This lack goes perfectly hand in hand with the obscurantist propensity of global neoliberalism in crisis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: APA PsycInfo Language: English Journal: New waves in social psychology Year: 2021 Document Type: Article