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The civilizational malaise
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The Burnout Society is also a society that
led adults, young people and adolescents to psychiatrists or alternative methods, and to those who have few resources, it led to closed groups with sometimes dubious social conscience.
The number of mental illnesses in children and adolescents should pay attention to this situation.
It is no coincidence that Freud wrote at the beginning of the last century about this “Civilization’s malaise” (Freud, 1930) the author will not discuss the psychic issue itself, but the distant one between instinctual impulses and civilization, that is, contemporary culture that takes man to his opposite as much as nature and his well-being.
Intolerance to errors, even scientific misunderstanding, the demand for effectiveness in all fields, the lack of empathy and love in everyday life and in particular, of values that are natural and lead to true human asceticism, takes emotional and social conflicts to dangerous limits.
By detecting this evil, Freud himself, the founder of psychiatry, did not take humanity to the couch, and I feel he pointed out that there are cultural evils and these must be remedied first, that is not what was done, in this sense Sloterdijk is right, human “domestication” was possible (Rules for the human park), which caused great discussion in Germany in the months of September and October 1999.
Even if religions themselves live on this civilizational evil, the true asceticism that is climbing the mountain of wisdom with values that support this asceticism on one’s feet is necessary to reach a true civilizational stage, it is necessary to “love in absence” it is necessary to aim for the true values that lead to plenitude and to true and unique comfort, empathy and love.
When we remove this from society, it begins to move towards isolation, hatred and conflicts and “malaise” are just the consequences of the absence of this “natural” state, but a plant only evolves if cared for in its natural conditions: adequate fertilizer, water and sun.
Wisdom, serenity and balance are possible remedies for the current warlike spirit.
Freud, S. (1974) O mal-estar na civilização (1930 [1929]). In: ______. O futuro de uma ilusão, o mal-estar na civilização e outros trabalhos (1927-1931). Direção geral da tradução: Jayme Salomão. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: Imago, p. 73-171. (Brazilian edition of complete Works of Sigmund Freud, 21)
