Freud e Schopenhauer: os limites de um diálogo sobre a moral

Abstract

This dissertation is a result of the verification of an expressive numbers of academic references relating Freud s work with a possible direct Schopenhauer s work influence. By going through the relationship existent between the Dantzig philosopher and the Viennese psychiatrist, this work tried to explain how an approaching can be done between both of them: it consisted of pointing out many approaching mistakes contained in the comment literature indicating, at the same time, a dialog that can be established. The issue morals ended emerging as a central theme resultant of the relationship study between Freud s and Schopenhauer s work where a possible dialog between them was established. The dissertation concerns, first of all, about identifying the historical and theoretical relationship between Freud s psychiatry and the philosophy of the will. After that, it was identified how each one of the authors elaborate, according to their code of speech, the base of the morality phenomenon. At last, the work indicates how the respective bases find some connection. The result, besides the contribution for each theory to understand the morals phenomenon, was the identification of crossing points many times responsible for the interpretative mistakes found in the comment literature.