CINEMA AND VOLUNTARY DEATH: Representing the Desire to Die in Kiarostami and Akerman
· Art and Literature
Publication Index
LYSIS Archive
Publications from the Research Centre for Suicide and Ways of Life, collected here on Alexandre H. Reis’s editorial website.
Each text includes the date and a link to its original publication on the UFPel website.
43 publications
Seven More Books for Thinking About and Understanding Suicide
· Books and Events
O Filósofo da Rua XV: A Novel of Ideas and the Perils of the Genre
· Art and Literature
Visual Arts, Death, and Violence: From Hirosada Utagawa to Berna Reale — by Cintia Fasano Leão (IFEN – Brazil)
· Art and Literature
LYSIS SCHEDULE — SECOND HALF OF 2026
· Books and Events
At Last, A INVENÇÃO DO SUICÍDIO, 2026, Editora UFABC (free PDF)
· Books and Events
The Pact of Dignity: Freud's Death between Medical Practice, the Sovereignty of the Subject, and the Economy of the Death Drive
· Philosophy and History
Corpses and Science. Part 1: The Diary of a Grave Robber
· Philosophy and History
Cadavers and Science. Part 2: From Body Snatchers to the Bodies of Barbacena
· Philosophy and History
Durkheim’s Critique of the Alienists and the Invention of Suicide as a Sociological Problem
· Philosophy and History
Why Offer a University Course on Suicide?
· Research and Care
Understanding Suicide in Letters XXI and XXII of Part III of Rousseau's A Nova Heloísa
· Philosophy and History
Graf met de Handjes, the Grave with the Clasped Hands
· Philosophy and History
The Right to Die with Dignity, a Look at Paul Lafargue’s Letter, Some Questions to Consider Together, and Flávio Migliaccio’s Lucidity
· Research and Care
“Two Suicides,” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
· Art and Literature
A Love Letter: Where Psychologists Cry, Flowers Have Thorns, and Life Takes Shape Again*
· Art and Literature
Uruguay, a Model for Latin America
· Research and Care
Listening to Thoughts of Death: David Hume and the Deconstruction of Prejudice about Suicide
· Philosophy and History
On Books 2 and 3 of História do Suicídio
· Books and Events
An Open Letter from Lysis on Yellow September
· Research and Care
Stoicism, Augustine, Nietzsche, and Trump, between Reason and the Desire to Dominate
· Philosophy and History
5 Books for Understanding Suicide
· Books and Events
The Abyss and Freedom: Ways of Living with the Desire to Die
· Philosophy and History
Natality, Love, and Will: Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Understanding Voluntary Death
· Philosophy and History
The Agonizing Storm of Suicide: A Spiritual Symptom and the Disorder of the Modern World
· Philosophy and History
Acaiaca: The Building and the Fall
· Art and Literature
Socrates: A Philosophy of the Good Death
· Philosophy and History
A Brief Comment on “Postvention”
· Research and Care
On Living Wills and the Right to Die
· Research and Care
Notes on Leonardo Alenza: Irony and the Critique of Romantic Suicide as Spectacle
· Art and Literature
“And so I resolved to live. Indeed, sometimes it takes a strong person to live, too.” Seneca, Letter LXXVIII
· Philosophy and History
“Paete, non dolet”: The Extraordinary Story of Arria and Paetus
· Philosophy and History
On Statistics… and Suicide among Men
· Research and Care
Some Philosophical Thoughts on “The Death of the Gaul”
· Art and Literature
Beauty and the Tragic: Henry Wallis's “The Death of Chatterton”
· Art and Literature
A Brief Reading of George Grosz's “Selbstmörder” (1916)
· Art and Literature
Commentary on “O Suicídio de Ofélia,” Eugène Delacroix, 1852
· Art and Literature
Between Light and Shadow: Rembrandt’s Philosopher in Meditation (1632)
· Art and Literature
“The Wounded Angel” (1903), by Hugo Simberg
· Art and Literature
DEATH AND LIFE, a Brief Reading of Gustav Klimt's Painting
· Art and Literature
On Emeric Marcier's “Segunda Tentação: o Suicídio”
· Art and Literature
“LE SUICIDÉ” by Édouard Manet
· Art and Literature
Aspasia and Socrates: A Debate Interrupted by Time
· Philosophy and History
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