Abstract

JORDAO, Guilherme Pimentel  and  DUARTE, Mariana Teixeira. Politics and Psychic Conflict: A Question about Desire. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.1, pp.316-336. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2021.59388.

In this article the debate about the condition of the structurally divided subject as a political actor will be introduced. As we think about politics from the perspective of the action, we find ourselves with the Kantian question: "What ought I do?" Before this question, the desiring subject finds oneself embarrassed. One finds oneself more embarrassed the greater is its liberty to decide. The Kantian effort to institute a universal Law as an ethical principle of the action changes the political orientation from the way of liberty and passes its destiny for Superego's rule. The consequences of this change is verifiable in different political systems and ratifies the assertion of Lacan, according to which the question about what to do cannot be made except for those whose desire is fading. Then, if the question about what to do continues to resonate for these subjects, as political agents, their decisions show, by the conflict, the mark imposed by desire. Freud's and Lacan's psychoanalysis helps us in this investigation on a dialog with modern philosophy and political science. One question remains: whether desire itself could be, in spite of the conflict that denounces the subject's division, thread of the action.

Keywords : politics; psychic conflict; desire; neurosis.

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