Cause and Determination of the Subject [Spanish]

Authors

  • Sylvia De Castro Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Abstract

This paper suggests we should differentiate the issues of cause and determination when thinking about the subject. The idea is to address a certain concern about the place of the human within the current discourse of science, which seeks to integrate it into the field of natural objects. Before this "biological prejudice", psychoanalysis proposes an innovative conception of causality, according to which the cause stems from the way the subject places itself in front of determinations, avoiding their imperative. Symptom appears as a resource of the subject and a way of understanding such avoidance.

Published

2015-12-04

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