The Cartesian cogito played... «Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction»
innashpitzberg2 сентября 2012The Cartesian cogito played a major part in promoting the scientific and rational development of the Enlightenment in the 18th century. These days, most philosophers would have some reservations about Descartes, but his famous phrase has become part of current Western common sense. Its effect is to conflate the self with what thinks. ‘I’ become primarily a consciousness, and that ess, in turn, is seen as the origin of ‘my’ ideas and values.
Poststructuralism, I have already suggested, questions the view that consciousness is an origin, treating it rather as an effect of signification: I owe to the big Other the meanings and differences that permit me to think at all. Psychoanalysis deepens the scandal by redoubling consciousness with unconscious processes that exercise other determinations, according to an agenda we don't even recognize. The free individual is no longer either individual or free.
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