Abstract
This paper aims to compare the reasoning that led to the coining of two close concepts: Bad Consciousness, as described in Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality; and Sigmund Freud's Superego, taking into account his work Civilization and Its Discontents (Culture). One of the elements of approximation between the two authors is the following reasoning: on account of an instance outside himself, man would develop an inner tendency toward self-restraint and self-flagellation. This tendency would be a sickening property, which Nietzsche and Freud repel. In Nietzsche, this self-censorship is the bad conscience: a sense of guilt that comes upon men because they want to exert their strength. Instinctual, animalistic, human pleasure, once gagged by the laws of the community, by responsibility, ends up in bad conscience. In Freud, the subject must, by virtue of the benefit of community life, moderate his ambitions for the enjoyment of pleasure. That is, a restraint that was initially external and social, is internalized and becomes part of the mind structure of the subject in question.
Highlights
O presente artigo tem o escopo de esclarecer convergências e divergências nos raciocínios que levaram à cunhagem de dois conceitos próximos: a Má Consciência, conforme construída na obra Genealogia da Moral, de Friedrich
This paper aims to compare the reasoning that led to the coining of two close concepts: Bad Consciousness, as described in Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality; and Sigmund Freud's Superego, taking into account his work Civilization and Its Discontents (Culture)
In Nietzsche, this selfcensorship is the bad conscience: a sense of guilt that comes upon men because they want to exert their strength
Summary
O presente artigo tem o escopo de esclarecer convergências e divergências nos raciocínios que levaram à cunhagem de dois conceitos próximos: a Má Consciência, conforme construída na obra Genealogia da Moral, de Friedrich. 126 Nietzsche; e o Superego de Sigmund Freud, levando em conta sua obra Mal Estar da. Um dos elementos de aproximação entre os dois autores é o seguinte raciocínio: por conta de uma instância exterior a si mesmo, o homem desenvolveria uma tendência interior à autocontenção e à autoflagelação. Esta tendência seria um fator de adoecimento, contra a qual Nietzsche e Freud se sublevam, através de diferentes formulações, com diferentes alcances e diferentes esperanças
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