The due anguish of death: considerations from philosophy and psychoanalysis

Abstract

This article aims to construct a course about two very important concepts for philosophy and psychoanalysis, death and anguish. We start with considerations about death as the fate of all mortals and their understanding in the heideggerian work, and then we construct possibilities for reading both concepts in the freud-lacanian psychoanalytic tradition. The hypothesis we have pursued since the beginning of this work is the possibility of conjecture a new understanding for anguish as an anguish of castration, and from the philosophical constructs of being-to-death, anguishand, especially, anguish of death, show that it is possible to say, from the course chosen, that all anguish is anguish of death.