Oedipal humanity: helplessness, castration and the neurosis society-nature

Abstract

This essay aims to present an interpretation of the Society-Nature relationship as a reworking of the Oedipal complex and neuroses in the psyche. With the support of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy readings, I discuss the human feeling of continuation or discontinuation with Nature and the impacts of the interdictions against instinctual desires between the erotic and destructive actions of the Human Being. I present two interpretations about the neurosis started in the collective superego with the transference relations of the maternal and paternal figures, the Mother Nature and the Father Nature. Then I analyze some examples from the traumas of castration in contemporary society: the fear of Nature and the fear of death. Finally, I signal the necessary continuity of research about Oedipus derivations in Society-Nature relationship, aiming to relate Geography and Psychoanalysis in order to understand human neuroses in the world and time we live in.