Psicoanálisis y política: Freud, Lacan y los pensadores post-lacanianos

Abstract

This thesis is an attempt to think psychoanalysis and politics together, passing through the discourse of ontology (being qua being). First, I extract some possible ontological implications of Sigmund Freud’s work, and connect them with the four distinct political positions that one finds variously represented in his work. I then show how Jacques Lacan’s thought connects to the Freudian ontology and how Lacan’s own political considerations can be related to these fundamental theoretical considerations. I then situate three contemporary thinkers of politics who have been influenced by psychoanalysis within the same schema: Ernesto Laclau, Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek...