The notion of life occupies a special place in Bergson s philosophy. However, far from being univocal, the meaning of this term shows different significations throughout his thought. A decisive change of this concept can ...

This research had as a goal a better definition of the notion of unconscious in the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. In the early texts, such as The Symbolic Efficacy (1949), this concept is introduced as a set of structural ...

Cette étude a pour objet fondamental analysé la relation entre la résistance et l exercice du pouvoir d après les études de Michel Foucault. Pour ce fair, nous allons développer cette sujet à partir d une généalogie de ...

The challenge of Hans Jonas s philosophy lies in thinking of an ethics for the technological civilization. As he recognizes that modern technology, instead of being a vocation or an instrument, has become a power, a movement ...

Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty, published in 1967 by Deleuze criticizes psychoanalysis for sustaining the false notion of sadomasochism, and proposes a distinction between death instinct and death drive, so that sadism ...

The present thesis defends that Hegel´s dialectic can be understood as a process of development, both from the standpoint of pure reason and from a perspective based on historical and political factors. The dialectic of ...

The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate the existence of an original psychoanalytical theory of perception, a theory which subverts philosophical and psychological traditional conceptions on the matter. In order to ...

The purpose of the present work is to explain the nature of the relations between philosophy and psychoanalysis in the thought of Gilles Deleuze during 1961 and 1969. It is postulated as a hypothesis to be demonstrated as ...

This work analyzes the psychological texts of William James (1842-1910), specially his Principles of Psychology, published in 1890. We begin following an alternative itinerary of reading proposed by James in the preface ...