IGOR CÉSAR NOBRE MESSIAS

The purpose of this work is to investigate the radical alterity implicit in the conception of “God”, according to the perspective of the French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), who emphasizes the substantial human need to seek outside himself what he lacks. The philosopher starts from the assumption that, due to the horror that man has of his own reality, the movement made towards what is external to him is justified by the inherent lack that drives him to try to understand - in the other - what is the self . For this reason, not the essence of God will be analyzed, but, as Pascal emphasizes, the inseparable need that I have to establish interpersonal relationships in two ways, as pointed out by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) when differentiating the small and the big Other, thus establishing the indispensable connection for the moral and existential complexion of the subject. Therefore, the adequacy of Pascal's moral reference, namely, God, to the ideals and requirements proposed by Lacan's great Other will be analysed.