Awakening of the real: the invention of the object a

Author(s)

Luiz Fernando Botto Garcia

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2016-03-30

Examining board members

Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle; Marilena de Souza Chaui; Léa Carneiro Silveira

• Advisor: Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

Abstract

It\'s about thinking the concept of object a as the necessary result of the impasse placed within lacanian metapsychology by the strained relation between an apropriation of hegelian dialectic of desire and sociolinguistic determination coming from Lévi-Strauss\' structuralism. First formalized in 1958, object a results from the manner in which Lacan conceived the subject\'s necessary resistance to desire\'s pure negativity, when desire has the possibility of being supressed by structure via signifier determination. Therefore, the development of concept is thought as to characterize it as the key factor in a lacanian twist, which happened between the 1950\'s and 60\'s, towards the rise of the Real as a fundamental record for the clinical theory. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/03528-6 - Awakening of the real: the invention of the object a
• Grantee: Luiz Fernando Botto Garcia
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master