Unconscious in Revolution. Surface, Contingency and Ontology in Freudian Psychoanalysis

Abstract

The present text proposes a return to the work of Sigmund Freud in order to conceive the notions of therapy and analytical as anti-hermeneutic and performative practices rather than archeological. By doing a brief review of the evolution of the analytic technique, and by developing the terms of image, desire, and surface, the aim is to show the radicalness of psychoanalysis’ philosophical dimension and its emancipatory reach beyond the clinic, which not only affects the specific desire of the individual but the entire framework of possibility of his desire as a historical subject.