GABRIELA FERRAZ COSTA

The dissertation will analyze the will to nothing as the central element of passive nihilism that must be substituted by the active nihilism for an affirmative religion to arise. The will to nothingness is associated with the problem of suffering, in which life is condemned because suffering is understood as undesirable. In this sense the will to nothing will be overcome by the reinterpretation of suffering so that it stops being associated with something negative. This revaluation of suffering depends on the will to power in which pain and suffering become indissociable, because pleasure depends on the resilience to resistance and suffering. In this sense the will to nothingness must be substituted by the will to power in which the subject releases his strength in the world, because the subject has lost his fear of resistances. In this sense the will to power reinterprets desire, overcoming the traditional Schopenhauerian association between desire and deprivation, when it affiliates desire with joy (Birault, 1967). The association of desire and happiness leads to a love of destiny, in which the individual is relived of guilt, which is the traditional ascetic interpretation of suffering. According to Giacóia (2013), the strong individuals would be the only human type that loves the positive and negative conditions of life, because they do not operate in the regime of resentment, because they have gratitude. Because of this, only the healthy and the strong individuals will be able to have amor fati that overcomes the disgust with life. Having this context in mind this dissertation will analyze the following concepts: i) desire as deprivation, ii) the interpretation of suffering to avoid suicidal nihilism, iii) resentment, iv) physiological extenuation or lack of libido, v) the lack of will and finally vi) the will to nothingness.