Em dor e culpa, meu espírito agoniza e clama por ação libertadora: sobre o perdão e o "autoperdão" no espaço público

Abstract

Humanity, doomed to its own plurality, is formed by individuals who constantly experience one of the conditions/tragedies of being who they are: action, always irreversible and unpredictable and, therefore, always potentially offensive. Thus, as Nietzsche (2013) and Hannah Arendt (2016) accompany him at this point, man has become an animal that promises. The promise (mutual agreements) creates some predictability in human conduct. But, as network relationships are somewhat imperfect, someone will not comply with the agreement and, even if through pain, must be remembered and punished. It turns out that punishment can be excessive for cases of offense in everyday life, while relationships need to continue without schism. Hence the relevance of forgiveness, discovered in this way by Jesus Christ: reestablishing the space between people, so that they continue to act. Currently, however, another phenomenon related to forgiveness has sparked debates in different areas: the problem of "self-forgiveness", insurgent as wrongly distributed guilt and even as the expulsion of the other. The proposal undertaken here is to lay bare these sociocultural phenomena in the light of conceptual constructions, but not only. An attempt is made to compare the conceptual rigor and the contributions collected from the theoretical field with reality, represented by the arts, especially narrative and painting, and illustrated by cases extracted from real life. Finally, it should be said that the research was partially subsidized by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), through the granting of a scholarship