Abstract

CUNHA, Eduardo Leal  and  BIRMAN, Joel. Links between modernity, ethics and subjectivity in Freud´s works. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2013, n.40, pp.37-47. ISSN 0100-3437.

This article is intended to indicate the importance of the ethical dimension of the psychoanalytic experience based on the link between Freud’s thinking and modernity. For this, we turn to Michel Foucault’s formulations that seem appropriate to a description of the Freudian ethical thinking, especially as the French philosopher, in the commentary on the 1984 text of Immanuel Kant in response to the question “What is enlightenment” binds the ethical processes of subjectivity on the one hand, and secondly, the link between modern experience and the critical task of thought. With this, we intend to highlight the presence in Freud’s works of the link between the processes of subjective constitution and the moral problem, which would contribute to an understanding of the subject in which it would not be referred to a psychological dimension, marked by notions like the will, consciousness and perception, but closer to what we try to describe as a ethical subject, designed from the relationship with the other and action upon the world.

Keywords : Ethics; Moral; Psychoanalysis; Subject; Freud.

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