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. 2024 Apr 10;35(163, ene.-mar.):70-78.
doi: 10.53680/vertex.v35i163.531.

[From the religion of work to the madness]

[Article in Spanish]
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[From the religion of work to the madness]

[Article in Spanish]
Eduardo Mahieu. Vertex. .
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Abstract

Starting from an apocryphal quote by Sigmund Freud about work and mental health, we carry out a historical investigation that leads from the creation of the first convents in the 4th century AD, to the works of the German psychiatrist Hubertus Tellenbach. Curiously, following this common thread, we find the notion of form-of-life that the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben exploits in his work on monasticism, and above all, and in an unexpected way, the central work of the German sociologist Max Weber The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism that brings together religion and economic success at a high subjective cost. Focused in this way, they raise a figure of great frequency in the most contemporary clinic: the melancholic type of Tellenbach as one of the faces of the spirit of our time.

A partir de una cita apócrifa de Sigmund Freud alrededor del trabajo y la salud mental, efectuamos una pesquisa histórica que conduce desde la creación de los primeros conventos en el siglo IV de nuestra era, hasta los trabajos del psiquiatra alemán Hubertus Tellenbach. Curiosamente, siguiendo dicho hilo conductor, encontramos la noción de forma-de-vida que el filósofo italiano Giorgio Agamben explota en su trabajo sobre el monaquismo, y sobre todo, y de manera imprevista, la obra central del sociólogo alemán Max Weber La ética protestante y el espíritu del capitalismo que reune religión y éxito económico con un alto costo subjetivo. Así enfocados, ellos hace surgir una figura de una gran frecuencia en la clínica más contemporánea: el tipo melancólico de Tellenbach como una de las caras del espíritu de nuestro tiempo.

Keywords: work; melancholic type; burn out; Tellenbach.

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