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For Heidegger, we are beings released into the world, aware of our own finitude, and permeated with anguish. This anguish, which is sometimes paralyzing, is also what drives us and moves us to create.

The notion of finitude is a human trait. Without the notion of death, everything that humans are able to build around themselves would have little or no meaning. Based on this point of view, the end becomes the focus of light on the path taken.

Thus, human existence becomes an eternal dose of anguish: neither too much that it prevents us from acting, nor so little that it robs us of the meaning and significance of our desires.

In his text On Transience, Freud tells us how the ephemeral essence of life would lead to an increase in enjoyment and pleasure, as well as an appreciation of the moments experienced.

The awareness of transience can, however, be a painful experience and, in the name of preserving our psychic survival, we resort to self-deception. When conceptualizing self-deception as a strategy for human survival, sociologist and philosopher Eduardo Gianetti suggests that it is only when we forget to remember our finitude that we are able to live as long as we have time to live.


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