BETWEEN PASSION, DRIVE AND BODY: EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLEXIONS FOR THE DIALOGUE UPON THE AFFECTIVE PHENOMENA

Abstract

Towards construction of a interface dialogue between the semiotics theory and psychoanalysis of Freud and Lacan orientation, this paper presents preliminary ideas by epistemological nature, in order to adjust the field of affective phenomena, in which contend place the passions, abundantly investigated by semiotics, the drive, vigorously defended by psychoanalysis, affections, recently reassessed as central to both theories, and the body, held by them as well as the neurosciences and neurobiology that massively occupies the current situation of investigations about this human condition. Underscoring about the resistance offered by some phenomena to the semiotics processes, especially the case of drive and body, as postulated by psychoanalysis and the neurosciences today, the paper follows the discussion on the dispute of Freud's thinking between biologizing readings interpretations and others, more clinical, psychological and language studies from the Viennese doctor. The goal is to legitimize the reading language studies, more specifically, semiotics, which can offer the psychoanalytic field autonomy before the neurosciences and, consequently, a better straighten reconciling the semiotic and psychoanalytic conceptualizations of affective phenomena.