Contemporary philosophy: what real people write about the real

About to be published, the book Filosofia, Psicanálise & Contemporaneidade (vol. II) (Philosophy, Psychoanalysis & Contemporaneity, vol. II) is a read likely to surprise those accustomed to a certain cultural pasteurization. And we refer directly to a tendency toward simplification that is touching, so banal. But not in our book!

We, researchers of the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis line at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), write essays with analyses, interpretations, tensioning of prestigious theories, and offer (with the exception of Sgarbe’s text, my own) a delicious literary experience.

Below, some excerpts of what is to come.

‘Deviants’ from the church

Beginning with the work of researcher Jeferson Costa. He is the book’s driving force. He is the one who not only had the idea for the publication but is also the piece that links the authors. On the philosophical use of the word “libertinus,” he explains, “we start from the hypothesis that this libertarian sense was preserved, at least within the contexts we will address in the scope of this work.” Jeferson Costa, coauthor of “Filosofia, Psicanálise & Contemporaneidade (vol. II)”:

Libertinus is a word of Latin origin that indicated the condition of a freed person, that is, someone who had worked under compulsion for another person. Libertinus was thus a category that referred to people who became free after having been enslaved or made servile by people considered free by birth. The category used to indicate such people free by birth was ‘Ingenuus.’ Therefore, the category libertinus came to define the action that metaphorically aimed at breaking chains or resisting norms. That was how disciplined Christians defined the deviants. It is a combat against ingenuousness, both in the broad and the ordinary sense. (Our translation.)

‘They kill the father’

Julio Fachini describes a peculiar relation in civilization’s founding act. He deals with the complicity of the blood brothers who murdered their own father. Julio Fachini, coauthor of “Filosofia, Psicanálise & Contemporaneidade (vol. II)”:

The brothers, united by common hatred, kill the father, and celebrate the deed with a meal in which the father’s corpse is the food, they devour him ‘raw, flesh, blood and bones’ (Freud, 2012, p. 214), in a cannibalistic rite that seals the spirit of equality through complicity in the act. (Our translation.)

‘Ordinary human’

As for me, I went to Freud with new questions about the malaise lived in contemporary democracy, with the generous guidance of Dr. Francisco Verardi Bocca.

I wrote things that, frankly, should amuse most of us. My contribution:

The degrees of factual certainty in the human sciences may seem strange, because they are relative, uncontained, lacking small and large paths chosen solely by whoever writes. At the end of the day, one has an ordinary human, who believes in things that even God doubts, who may not care about scientific technique, let alone about Freud and a conception of the universe that does not consider the need for Our Lord Jesus Christ for what is solely human and earthly. (Our translation.)

Notice

There are many more authors, who will arrive soon. As soon as the book is all ready to be read, criticized, denied, cited, and other things in the nature of books, I will let you know.