The aim of this research is to present a discussion and an analysis of the epistemological statute of the main theories regarding the philosophy of mind. In order to do that, we have developed some basic notions of the ...

The present work seeks to elucidate the notion of Real in Lacan, from the first writings to the seminar VII, The Ethics of the Psychoanalysis. Initially, the relationships are privileged: Imaginary and Real; Symbolic and ...

This dissertation aims to discuss the theoretical sources taken by Jürgen Habermas to legitimate his concept of public sphere (Öffentlichkeit). The study also presents alternative interpretive perspectives to the one assumed ...

The Gestalt Theory, which foundations are erected by the ideas of Köhler, Koffka and Wertheimer, has as main purpose the reestablishment of the bond between science and life. The notion of Gestalt, thought as an entity ...

This study aims at following Deleuzes s reflections about Nietzsche, assuming as the reading object the book Nietzsche and the Philosophy (1962). From the first pages, Deleuze asserts that Nietzsche is responsible for ...

The prospect of submitting the concepts of ego and object to an investigation capable of detecting its conditions of possibility, its guiding principles and its methods, becomes an important tool for elucidating the Freudian ...

The present work has arisen of the need to understand the Lacan statement "the unconscious is structuralized as language". With this affirmation Lacan has pointed to two important directions: His incursion to the structuralism ...

The objective of this dissertation is analyze the problem of truth as presented by Alfred Tarski in his essay The Semantic Conception of Truth . Other theories of truth are considered, explained and classified in the first ...