É permitido esquecer!: Nietzsche e a clínica fenomenológico-existencial

Abstract

This paper intended to reflect on the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's conception of forgetting, based on a clinical situation, to discuss the notion of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a risk factor for suicide. By taking as a starting point a psychological support in the existential-phenomenological approach, our investigation followed the elements present in the sessions so that we could verify the character of the experience as the main orientation of the analysis. In this way, our investigative path initially analyzed critically, when presenting the care, the medical and even psychological notions that permeate the normative consensus on clinical treatment. After following the situation that inspired the research, we reviewed which assumptions about memory underlie the diagnosis of PTSD, highlighting the historicity that these concepts carry, so that we could verify the non-universality and the insufficiency regarding the explanation of memory as a phenomenon of temporal apprehension. Then, once we analyzed the notions to which this work is opposing, we went to the contributions of Nietzschean philosophy, observing first of all its proximity to the existential-phenomenological clinic, as well as the relevance of not falling back on new prescriptions about clinic practice. In the end, our research intends to demonstrate how Nietzsche’s forgetfulness concept, understood not as a mnemonic erasure, but as a gesture of recreating meaning, is very opportune for a psychotherapeutic exercise that honors existence in its indeterminacy and inconstancy.