De la tragedia al malestar en la cultura

Georg Simmel y Sigmund Freud

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to make a reflection about the diagnostics on the discomfort in the modern culture, elaborated by Georg Simmel and Sigmund Freud at the end of xixth century. The idea is to analyze the role that both thinkers assign to the effects on the interior of the individual, caused by the so called illnesses of modernity (rationality, calculation, indifference, repression of the instincts, moral, etcetera). On the other hand, we try to emphasize the originality of both thinkers and, at the same time, the parallelism of his reflections in a time and a contiguous space (Vienna and Berlin). Both reflections sustained in an original style and a will of rupture with the scientific and cultural canons of their time. Finally, what we have indicated before is taken to a conclusion in which we have postulated the necessity to reconstruct the principles and the social methods whereupon sciences—especially sociology—approach a social reality in which a subject/object exists and speaks for himself.