MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO: EGOTISM TURNED ON PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE IN THE TRAGICAL SENSE OF LIFE

Abstract

This essay proposes that the reflections made by Miguel de Unamuno show the movement of the ego towards other planes of understanding that go beyond the factual; The reason for this is that at least four categories coexist in Miguel de Unamuno’s texts, which are key to outlining a general picture about textual composition: death, tragic feeling, fantasy, and personification. This sequence of elements achieve the transfer of the ego, a concept that we enter to name the phenomenon that Unamuno defines as “the desire to be another at the same time” (Unamuno, 2003, p. 126). We will conclude that these factors offer the possibility of new philosophical instances for understanding human reality in a hermeneutic way.