Entre a lei e o desejo: antecedentes à abordagem lacaniana do problema da ética em "Kant com Sade"

Abstract

Kant with Sade represents an important moment of Lacan s theoretical trajectory and the way he understood the relevance of psychoanalysis as a discipline of modernity. According to Lacan, Freud promoted the foundation of a pioneer way to the problem of subjectivity, which, as it included the concept of unconscious, revolutionized all the approaches to ethics until that moment. It would not be possible, after Freud, to understand ethics without the imaginary dimension of fantasy. On the other hand, Kant with Sade is revealed as the symptom of an important impasse at Lacan s theoretical trajectory, especially concerning the relations among law, jouissance, and desire. This work intends to indicate the antecedents of the problem of ethics in Lacan s work that culminates in the production of the article in 1962.