The familiar absurd:An analysis of the processes of subjectivation based on Albert Camus and Freudian psychoanalysis

Abstract

The article aims to discuss the philosophy of Albert Camus and Freudian psychoanalysis. Camus' theory of absurdity is a lens to be used in reading contemporary cultural behaviors. At this point, it is clear that what the philosopher maps as an abnormal condition of human life has taken a place of stability in the daily psychosocial field. Albert Camus, bequeaths us the vision of happiness based on freedom, in addition to physics, of bodies. A transcendent freedom in which the time of choice and judge can be reached. Contemporary society, with its morbid and liquid affects, offers an "absurd" freedom, which robs man of the character of the conductor of his own life. His problem of revolt remains in a camouflaged way, that is, the revolted man gives way to the conformed man, without losing the volatility of the desire-revolt based on the mythical theory of Sisyphus and his eternal and useless effort.