FROM PESSIMISM TO HOPE. LOVE IN ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER AND SIGMUND FREUD'S GRASP

• Authors: Smolorz P.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article presents two grasps of love - in Schopenhauer's pessimistic philosophy and Freud's psychoanalysis. A similarity between Schopenhauer's metaphysics and Freud's psychoanalysis is shown. Schopenhauer's 'will' and Freud's 'id' are almost the same, though grasped in two different manners. Just like 'id', ' will' becomes the source of misfortune, and culture with its ethical values (particularly love) can become remedy for evil and suffering. Separating 'eros' from 'agape', Schopenhauer placed sexual love as a handmaid to 'will' and considered it the source of human suffering. In this understanding, love of one's neighbor becomes liberation from suffering, but it is a seeming consolation, as such love is in fact a concealed egoism. Introducing the notion of sublimation, Freud made a passage between 'eros' and 'agape'. Love, wherever its source, in Freud's grasp assures security and thus gives happiness which is the final purpose of everyone.

Keywords

EN

FREUD; LOVE; PESSIMISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SCHOPENHAUER

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Bialystok University Press
• Journal: Archeus. Studia z bioetyki i antropologii filozoficznej
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 95-106
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Smolorz P.

• P. Smolorz, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Bankowa 11, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA058920