Eros e Tânatos

the long version

From the Pre-Socratic philosophers till Nietzsche and Freud, this books tryes to show the interplay of forces and drives in their continuous encroachment and surrender, construction and destruction, overcoming and change, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, pleasure and displeasure. Thus, life and death do never attain a final synthesis, as they never end to include one in the other, to exclude one from the other, to cooperate one with the other, to fight one against the other. The book starts and ends with Saint Augustine's question: "Should I call this a mortal life, or a vital death?"