Why Philosophy?

Since high school, or even earlier, my interest in Philosophy was manifest as belonging to my deepest self. After hesitating a lot to choose a career, I finally enrolled at the University of São Paulo (USP) School of Medicine, because of thinking a good acquaintance with the Neurosciences should be indispensable for anyone in search for a Philosophical approach to the most fundamental questions of our times. 'Free will or determinism?' The questioning whether human beings must be taken as the ultimate culprits of their actions was at those times at the core of my thoughts. You, reader, must be thinking, "What an annoying teenager, a nerd" Maybe you are right, but I used to keep on philosophizing hard, even when I was in love, my constant state of being.
After graduating in Medicine and finishing my specialization (Residency in Psychiatry) at the Hospital das Clínicas at the same Medical School (1981), I began my graduation course on Philosophy also at the University of São Paulo (USP). After my B.A., I began in 1985 working on my Ph. D. thesis (Genealogy of Real) in 1985. Sincerely grateful to all my teachers, from the Philosophy and Psychiatry Departments, for supporting my refusal to abbreviate my work with more pragmatic research options. Finally, one among the most important acknowledgments: to all the people who sought my clinical work as a psychiatrist. Suffering from the so-called psychiatric conditions, they always instigated me to put in question the grounds of the so-called consensual "reality" to which all human beings would be inexorably subject / convicted / arrested / tied. The reader chooses the best participle or suggests yet another.