A possible approximation between the literature of self-help, the paratathic discourse and the psychoanalytic suggestion

Abstract

This article aims to develop a dialogue between the growing demand in the market for self-help literature and Freudian philosophy and psychoanalysis, seeking to understand the notion of the subject's development with his cognition of truth. Thus, the main objective is to analyze beyond self-help literature with the formation of the subject's thinking, using the interpretation of Freudian psychoanalysis with the notion of philosophy, aiming at a critique of contingent truths. For a full achievement of the objective, the specific objectives aim to understand self-help as an exercise of self-care, to present Freudian psychoanalysis with its hypnotic suggestion, and to assimilate the philosophical methods that seek the development of a hypotactic discourse. Furthermore, in order to achieve the proposed objectives, the method used for the construction of this article is based on a hermeneutic pedagogy together with the case study of the construction of truth in the subject. For this purpose, the article will use classic works of Freudian psychoanalysis and philosophy as its main resource, in addition to reports for the case study. In conclusive terms, we suggest a proximity between self-help literature and paratactic discourse, with the method of psychoanalytic suggestion as an important device to help in this approximation. Thus, we believe that self-help works do not sufficiently provoke the individual to build new theories about himself and the world, since they use a communication of reproduction of what they already have as a necessary truth, exactly as in the paratactic discourse.