The field and the repetition\'s principles: essay on Gilles Deleuze\'s concept of unconscious (1953-1968)

Author(s)

Bruna Martins Coelho

• 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: 2014-03-10

Examining board members

Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle; Marilena de Souza Chaui; Guillaume Sibertin blanc

• Advisor: Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

Abstract

The following dissertation introduces the \"unconscious\" as an intrinsical matter of Gilles Deleuze\'s intellectual path. Having as a horizon \"Difference and Repetition\", which would answer, among others, the attempt of constructing a notion of the \"unconscious\" as an \"immanent field\", simultaneously with the critic of the traditional image of thought, it is shown how this project was already being developt on his monographic studies about Hume, Bergson, Nietzsche, Proust and Sacher-Masoch. Together with the \"unconscious\" issue as a field, Deleuze thinks both the temporal and the constitutional of the subject, or of the unpersonal individualizations, processes from the repetition, major ontological concept, through the description of syntheses operated by habit, memory, the eternal return and by the death instinct. Firstly introduced on Deleuze\'s monographys, \"Diference and Repetition\" reintroduces these synthesis as of the \"time\" or of the \"unconscious\", refunding a transcendental esthetics. Replace the \"unconscious\" problem giving it a positive ontological status, depends on it\'s dialogue with Freud\'s and Lacan\'s psychoanalysis and with the ontologies of the negative, which they were tributed to. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/06761-5 - Habit and repetition: concerning the Diference - from Gilles Deleuzes firsts studies to Diference and Repetition
• Grantee: Bruna Martins Coelho
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master