Amor Fati: a psychoanalytic reading on the love of fate
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Amor Fati; Psychoanalysis; Suffering; Subjectivity; Nietzsche.Abstract
AbstractThis paper establishes a dialogue between Nietzschean philosophy and Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, exploring the concept of Amor Fati—love of fate—as an ethical and clinical metaphor in addressing human suffering. Drawing on Nietzsche’s The Gay Science and Ecce Homo, Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia, and Lacan’s Ethics of Psychoanalysis, the author argues that active acceptance of fate enables responsibility and sublimation within analysis. Amor Fati becomes a clinical metaphor for embracing lack and transforming pain into symbolic meaning, offering an ethics of authenticity and subjectivity in contemporary life.
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