Entre desejos e delírios: as vozes da loucura em Nietzsche

Abstract

The present dissertation intends to analyze the concepts of madness and normality through the Nietzschean perspective of life as a work of art, searching in what ways and to what extent madness could be intensifying the power of creation of life. In this sense, we will first focus on the problem of normatization of behavior, in order to understand how the diagnosis of pathology excludes the subject considered as deviant and is present as a form of domination of the same. In addition, we will briefly review the experience of madness in ancient Greece through Plato's Phaedrus dialogue in order to counter the understanding of madness as a mental illness. The modes of conception of madness in antiquity will be fundamental in this search for madness as the creation of life. Later, we will introduce notions of Apollo and Dionísio that appear in the birth of the Tragedy, of Friedrich Nietzsche, with the intention to deepen the knowledge of the concept of will of power in Nietzsche. Finally, we will analyze different cinematographic images that seem to elucidate such possibilities of the experience of madness as the creation of ways of life.