Abstract

BUCHAUL, Suéllen Pessanha  and  FORTES, Maria Isabel. The Imperative of Autonomy: A Critical Reading from Psychoanalysis. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp. 693-708. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2021.61064.

This article presents the question about the imperative way in which the figure of autonomy was established in social discourse and the critique of psychoanalysis enunciated by Jacques Lacan. For this, we will make some considerations about the notion of autonomy: first as a legacy of modernity and then as a way of subjectivation in contemporary culture, invested with an intense feeling of anguish. The modern aspiration for autonomy has now become an imperative, promoting effects on the subject. Lacanian theory, at its beginning, points to the inefficiency over the social promotion of autonomy, since the concept of the subject of the unconscious subverts the idea of an autonomous individual. From the relation between demand and desire, considering the subject's division by language order and the ego located in the imaginary register, psychoanalysis intends the social imperative in search of autonomy as a delusional discourse to the subject of the unconscious.

Keywords : autonomy; imperative; subjetivation; psychoanalysis; subject.

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