Sublime

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud.

appraisal

En Occident, nous nous sommes éloignés de nos cultures traditionnelles, religieuses et même nationales, en partie pour atténuer les risques de conflits entre groupes. Mais nous sommes de plus en plus la cible du désespoir causé par l’absence de sens, et c’est loin d’être une avancée.

Here the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre perceives a shift from communal ethics to a world order in which the individual has apparently become the norm. In his magnum opus After Virtue, MacIntyre explodes, among other things, the myth of modern moral freedom. Yes, we have been liberated from priests and the morality they imposed on us; but,

(A epidemia do narcisismo),

The demand for an equitable distribution of resources would be central to any politics emerging from the fatigue of the belabored self. A social safety net with a guaranteed minimum living allowance would be a necessary component of a politics of self-realization.

(la mort et l’humiliation publique constituant les deux plus grandes peurs).

In these conditions of ontological precarity, forgetting becomes an adaptive strategy.

fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity