In everyday life, we can increasingly perceive the influence that the body exerts on society. Thus, this study aims to analyze the theme of the self and the body in Freud and Schopenhauer, verifying whether there are possible conceptual relationships between these authors that are important for current studies and are similar due to their inaugural theories on the subject. Following the influence of German Romanticism, the psychoanalyst and philosopher disseminated corporeality as an individual expression, based on an experience that goes beyond pure genetics. Therefore, the body has been approached beyond the physiological sense in research conducted mainly in the areas of philosophy and psychoanalysis.
