A CONSTRUÇÃO DA PAIXÃO MELANCÓLICA EM OS SOFRIMENTOS DO JOVEM WERTHER

Abstract

The objective of this work is to reflect on the construction of melancholy passion in the book Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther), published in 1774 by the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. We seek to understand how the romantic worldview points to a feeling of recurrent dissatisfaction in the relationship between character and the world. Considering that the work was launched in a melancholy literary atmosphere and marked by the feeling of Weltschmerz (pessimistic and relative view, building the pain of the world for each subject) as opposed to the Weltanschauung (universal and classic view of the world). Goethe's epistolary novel is a hallmark of the pre-romantic movement Sturm und Drang, although it points to the marks of exaggeration and the crisis of literary romanticism itself. Based on these assumptions, we seek support from Freud ([1915], 2010) and Kehl (2009) to unravel critical notes about the unethical relationship between love and death or the reflexive understanding of the experience as traces of the painful lack.