AUTOCONSCIÊNCIA, SUICÍDIO E FINITUDE: REFLEXÕES SOBRE MEDIAÇÃO COGNITIVA

Authors

  • Medeiros do Nascimento Medeiros do Nascimento Universidade Federal de Pernambuco- UFPE
  • Wilzacler Rosa e Silva Pinheiro UFPE
  • Lucas Nonato Souza e Silva UFPE
  • Antonio Roazzi Universidade Federal de Pernambuco-UFPE

Abstract

This article promotes a reflection on the possible cognitive mediation between self-awareness, finitude, and suicide. Initially, some philosophical and psychological conceptions about finitude were explained; then, a brief history about the representations of suicide, starting from Antiquity, where self-extermination was understood as a path to happiness, going through historical periods where the act was associated with something sinful, criminal, resulting from social and/or individual, to more current conceptions that relate to a complex and multifactorial phenomenon. Subsequently, a description of the process of self-awareness was elaborated, understood as an aspect that involves several cognitive processes, which provided an opportunity for theoretical scrutiny on the possibility of mediating the functional relations between finitude and suicide. The results of this theoretical reflection provided the opportunity to score questions that urge a better clarification on cognition and its relationship with the psychological meaning of suicide and the formation of complex concepts related to Death and the Self, such as Finitude.

Keywords: Self-awareness, Suicide, Finitude, Cognitive Mediation, Cognitive Psychology.

 

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Author Biographies

Medeiros do Nascimento Medeiros do Nascimento , Universidade Federal de Pernambuco- UFPE

Doutor, Departamento de Psicologia – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) – Coordenador do Laboratório de Estudos de Autoconsciência, Consciência, Cognição de Alta Ordem e Self (LACCOS).

Wilzacler Rosa e Silva Pinheiro , UFPE

Mestre em Psicologia, Membro do LACCOS - 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3861-1582

Lucas Nonato Souza e Silva , UFPE

Mestrando em Psicologia Cognitiva, Membro do LACCOS -  

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2572-3155,

Antonio Roazzi, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco-UFPE

D.Phil Oxord. Departamento de Psicologia – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6411-2763

http://lattes.cnpq.br/6108730498633062

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio_Roazzi

Published

2021-12-31