Abstract

CORDEIRO, Felipe; TIMO, Alberto Luiz Rodrigues  and  SILVA, Marcus Vinicius. Repression in Methodical Doubt: Unconscious Motions and their Respective Attenuators in the Methodical Doubt of Descartes. Gerais, Rev. Interinst. Psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.1, pp. 1-20. ISSN 1983-8220.  http://dx.doi.org/10.36298/gerais2020130110.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the content of meditations present in Discourse on Method (1637) and Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), both of René Descartes' authorship, based on the notions established by psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche about Copernican Revolutions and Ptolemaic relapses. Extending the Copernican Revolutions designation - which Laplanche grants specifically to Psychoanalysis - to the discovery of an unconscious where there are deeply sexual dispositions with alteritarian origins, the intention is to use this notion beyond the Freudian text, in which Laplanche's theories are mainly focused. Once this new meaning has been assigned, we proposed to expose the similarities between Descartes' meditations and the analytical situation. This exercise includes an experience "beyond the walls", where the psychoanalytic practice is put in motion before an external object, renewing its fundamental Copernican revolutionary vocation.

Keywords : René Descartes; 1596-1650; Laplanche; Jean; 1924-2012; Psychoanalysis.

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