Psychoanalytic Notions about the Moral Debat in Ernesto Sábato Essays

Abstract

In this work we explore the following four essays from the Argentinian writer Ernesto Sábato: Uno y el universo (1945), Hombres y engranajes (1951), Heterodoxia (1953) y El otro rostro del peronismo (1956). We focus in the moral issues discussed in these essays. The author lays out the need to attend essential enquiries regarding the subject condition. His thoughts deepen into antagonizing tendencies, raised both in the individual scene as well as in the progression of the social groups. These two ultimately aid a problem related to the moral. For their part, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan explored the same topic under the scope of a conceptual framework based on the psychic functioning and the drive. In this way, Sábato’s literary work enables the production of links with the psychoanalytic theory, showing how the artist´s act implicates a knowledge that interest the psychoanalysis.