The body, things, and the other as systems of equivalences. A reading from the interpretation of the unconscious [Spanish]

Authors

  • Graciela Ralón Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Abstract

The notion of a system of equivalences comes to have in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology a central place because a general function of tacit transposition lies under there. It is a principle for understanding without analogical explanation, i.e., a synthesis without an analysis, as can be seen, for example, in the plasticity, transferability, and likeliness that characterizes habits. On this basis, the article will follow a regressive way in order to show that the meaning of the equivalences and transpositions is latent in “the symbolic matrixes” that offer a key to understand that the phenomena of expression, which occur in the world by means of the body, language, history, and art, should be seen as nodes or emblems of meaning in which a temporal dimension shows itself. Symbolic matrixes are “organizing centers”, and thus “centers of significance” that are taken up over and over again.

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Published

2014-06-15

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Dossier: Pensar el cuerpo