Conclusion: pathologising security through Lacanian desire

Death and Security ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781784993139.003.0008 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Charlotte Heath-Kelly

Keyword(s):

Death Anxiety ◽

Death Of God ◽

Eternal Recurrence

This concluding chapter offers a theoretical reading of the drive to secure within the terms of Lacanian desire. It asks whether there is something thrilling and yet masochistic about the Sisyphean pursuit of the unobtainable condition known as security. Given that security pursues an impossible immortality, is it indicative of a fantasy of control and order – rather than a teleological, goal-oriented pursuit? And, as fantasy, is this endeavour structured around an eternal recurrence and repetition, rather than the pursuit and possession of a discrete objective? The chapter suggests that the security edifice is pathology, caused by the Death of God and the resurgent salience of death anxiety in a society bereft of promises to immortality.

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Nihilsmo, Fin de la Metafisica y Secularizacion en el Pensamiento de Nietzsche, Heidegger y Vattimo

The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy ◽

10.5840/wcp20-paideia19986149 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 165-172

Author(s):

Laura Laiseca

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Death Of God ◽

Eternal Recurrence ◽

History Of ◽

Postmodern Philosophy ◽

The Will ◽

The Subject ◽

The One

The purpose of this article is to articulate Nietzsche's criticism of morality which is centered in his experience of the death of God and the end of the subject of Modernity. Nietzsche considers nihilism as a nihilism of morality, not of metaphysics: it is morality and its history that has given rise to nihilism in the Occident. That is why Nietzsche separates himself from metaphysics as well as from morality and science, which differs from Heidegger's reasons. According to Heidegger, Nietzsche places himself in a primal position in the history of metaphysics, by which he means the consummation (Vollendung) of metaphysics' nihilism, which Heidegger tries to transcend. On the one hand, Heidegger shows us how Nietzsche consummates the Platonic philosophy by inverting its principles. On the other, Nietzsche consummates the metaphysics of subjectivity. Consequently he conceives the thought of the will of power and of the eternal recurrence as the two last forms of the metaphysical categories of essence and existence respectively. On this ground it is possible to understand Nietzsche's and Heidegger's thought as the necessary first stage in the transition to Vattimo's postmodern philosophy and his notion of secularization.

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The Relationship of T. S. Eliot and Friedrich Nietzsche: Death of God and Eternal Recurrence

Journal of the T S Eliot Society of Korea ◽

10.14364/t.s.eliot.2014.24.2.27-65 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 27-65

Author(s):

Soon-Jung BAE ◽

Keyword(s):

Friedrich Nietzsche ◽

Death Of God ◽

Eternal Recurrence ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

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Nietzsche on the Death of God and Eternal Recurrence

Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656059.003.0010 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 263-289 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robert R. Williams

Keyword(s):

Death Of God ◽

Eternal Recurrence

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Poor Acceptance of the Past is Related to Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults

GeroPsych ◽

10.1024/1662-9647/a000227 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 246-251

Author(s):

Gozde Cetinkol ◽

Gulbahar Bastug ◽

E. Tugba Ozel Kizil

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Regression Analysis ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Death Anxiety ◽

Geriatric Depression ◽

Ego Integrity ◽

The Past ◽

Depressed Group ◽

Total Death ◽

The Relationship

Abstract. Depression in older adults can be explained by Erikson’s theory on the conflict of ego integrity versus hopelessness. The study investigated the relationship between past acceptance, hopelessness, death anxiety, and depressive symptoms in 100 older (≥50 years) adults. The total Beck Hopelessness (BHS), Geriatric Depression (GDS), and Accepting the Past (ACPAST) subscale scores of the depressed group were higher, while the total Death Anxiety (DAS) and Reminiscing the Past (REM) subscale scores of both groups were similar. A regression analysis revealed that the BHS, DAS, and ACPAST predicted the GDS. Past acceptance seems to be important for ego integrity in older adults.

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