Persecution and Morality : Intersections and Tensions between Freud and L�vinas

Giovanini, Valerie Oved

ISBN 10: 3030646661 / ISBN 13: 9783030646660

Editore: Springer 2022-04, 2022

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• Titolo: Persecution and Morality : Intersections and Tensions between Freud and L�vinas
• Editore: Springer 2022-04
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030646661
• ISBN 13: 9783030646660
• Rilegatura: PF
• Condizione: New

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This book shows how persecution is a condition that binds each in an ethical obligation to the other. Persecution is functionally defined here as an impinging, affective relation that is not mediated by reason. It focuses on the works and personal lives of Emmanuel Lévinas―a phenomenological ethicist who understood persecution as an ontological condition for human existence―and Sigmund Freud, the inventor of psychoanalysis who proposed that a demanding superego is a persecuting psychological mechanism that enables one to sadistically enjoy moral injunctions.
Scholarship on the work of Freud and Lévinas remains critical about their objectivity, but this book uses the phenomenological method to bracket this concern with objective truth and instead reconstruct their historical biographies to evaluate their hyperbolically opposing claims. By doing so, it is suggested that moral actions and relations of persecution in their personal lives illuminate the epistemic limits that they argued contribute to the psychological and ontological necessity of persecuting behaviors. Object relations and intersubjective approaches in psychoanalysis successfully incorporate meaningful elements from both of their theoretical works, which is used to develop an intentionality of search that is sensitive to an unknowable, relational, and existentially vulnerable ethical subjectivity.
Details from Freud’s and Lévinas’ works and lives, on the proclivity to use persecution to achieve moral ends, provide signint ethical warnings, and the author uses them as a strategy for developing the reader’s intentionality of search, to reflect on when they may use persecuting means for moral ends. The interdisciplinary nature of this research monograph is intended for academics, scholars, and researchers who are interested in psychoanalysis, moral philosophy, and phenomenology.