Sobre a Experiência Onírica de um Suicida Hermético: testemunhos da busca por uma interpretação fenomenológica para o silêncio no suicídio

Abstract

This thesis seeks, starting from a personal account of the experience of a suicide attempt, to reflect on voluntary death and to establish an attempt to interpret the phenomenon through phenomenological and existential psychology. Therefore, after exposing the personal report, it reviews the multiple narratives currently established about suicide in the field of science. It then undertakes a critical analysis of these multiple discourses establishing a dialogue with Martin Heidegger's discussions on modern technique and on what the philosopher names as forgetting of being. In view of Heidegger's criticisms, it seeks to review, in daseinsanalysis, already consolidated interpretations of suicide. In this sense, we turn to the review of the theme in the work of Ludwig Binswanger, especially the expositions contained in the Ellen West Case and in the psychopathological description of melancholy and mania. After verifying the insufficiency of Binswanger's interpretations, which still fall back on the problems raised by Heidegger, we seek, in a dialogue with literature, another way of thinking about suicide and the silence of those who decide to end their lives and do not communicate their intention.